Real Talk About Bath and Body Works Candles

I'm sure I don't have to say that a scent like Salty Pretzel Milkshake is very much outside of my wheelhouse. A gourmand scent that's savory and sweet AND there's caramel involved in the equation? NO THANK YOU! I initially had zero interest in this candle at all and absolutely no desire to sniff it...that is until fairly recently. So this candle has been receiving a ridiculous amount of overhype on social media which always turns me off to a scent regardless of whether it is actually good nor not. After rooting thru all of the basic and utterly useless "OMG this smells so good" drivel and finally reading posts from people who actually review, I noticed something interesting - everyone was saying something different about notes-wise. Some say that they smelled what the note description suggested, while others smelled notes that weren't mentioned at all while others claimed it smelled so close to another runofthemill scent to the point of possibly bein...

So the bf and I went to the mall and we stopped off at BBW/WB to take advantage of the handsoap and wf refills sales. I looked around and didn't see anything interesting. We had already made our purchases and were leaving out of the store when out of the corner of my eye, I saw a display of the Beachhouse candles. I was debating whether or not I was even going to write a WALK N SNFF review for this collection as it is all kinds of underwhelming - once again style over substance. However I figured somebody out there might be interested and so, here we are... I'm gonna skip White Gardenia, Copper Coconut and Pineapple Mango cuz everybody knows what those smell like. I am briefly going to talk about Beach Sage & Mint for a minute as it may be new to a few of you. So Beach Sage and Mint made its debut in the ill-fated "Coast to Coast" collection ; the whole collection failed but it appeared in a few stores randomly during SAS . Right of the bat,  it is NOT ...

So BBW is really out here sneaking in all of these surprises. After these past boring and hoohum months, BBW is definitely keeping us on our toes with lots of unnanounced random and mysterious surprises. Along with those random "online only" candles that popped up recently (which btw, it does look like those will be available in stores fairly soon with 1 or 2 being online exclusives because of course) but another collction has popped in test stores recently with definite possibiliy of going wide - all rose collection. Now betwixt you and me, I'm not a huge fan of rose scents; it's a note I can only take in small doses and/or blended with more dominant notes. That said, I and a few others have been saying that there should be an all rose collection similar to the doomed "Eucalyptus and (fill in the blank)" collection from years ago. Well, BBW have listened. And it looks like the majority of these are either new or possible repackages of past scents from the...

Sooooo, these popped up online today... As you can see, they are online only exclusives...which brings me to my rant I vehemently hate/loathe/despise this new trend having certain scents only available on the website. And it seems to be scents that were previously testing and I'm guessing the remainders in the warehouse were simply put online to get rid of them as there weren't enough to send to stores nationwide. Now a couple of years ago, I was for this. As you know, during the golden age of BBW, there was the test store craze and for a time, you could order test candles from test stores; that of couse went the way of the dodo due to peope's greed and thirst. So test candles were harder to get to after that. An with Littleballadeer and Tinadivalicious and Touchthefiretwice pumping review video after the review video, the test candle thirst was real. In those days, I often said that failed test scents should be put online so tha more peple could have easier acces...

So as you may (or may not) know, the "Seas the Day" Candles randomly popped up online last week. However there have been varying reports of when they were supposed to appear in stores - some stores received theirs over the weekend, some got theirs first thing this morning while others have said that their store wouldn't get them until next week with the new floorset. I went to a BBW this morning and they didn't have any of them; not really surprising cuz that store is whack. Then later, before heading home, I stopped by my local WB store and, lo and behold, they had em. So you already know what Tiki Beach smells like..and Island Papaya and Aloha Kiwi Passionfruit and Coconut Sandalwood . The Perfect Summer is Suntan  aka Poolside  and it smells like legit suntan lotion Berry Waffle Cone is back...why I dunno. It doesn't smell summery at all. Everybody goes apeshit for it and for the life of me, I don't understand the hype. And now, on to the...

So a couple of days ago, I went to a nearby BBW to take advantage of the wf bulb sale. I went in expecting not to see anything interesting. I had already bought the bulbs I wanted and was heading out the store when something told me to turn back around. I looked and sure enough, there was a bunch of the mysterious Crisp Green Apple candles....which as you may (or may not know), these were originally an online only exclusive but have been popping randomly in stores lately.  Crisp Green Apple (9107M8A11) - I do love a good crisp and juicy apple scent, especially green apple. That said, I was kinda intrigued with this scent. Then there were reports on social media that it smelled like Pink Apple Punch, which seems to be BBW's go-to blend for their apple candles; needless to say, it was a no for me cuz I CAN NOT with that stank ass candle. Anyway, I should've known better than to put stock into noses on social media that I don't trust without smelling it for myself; plot t...