Real Talk About Bath and Body Works Candles

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYBODY! And speaking of Halloween...  It always struck me as odd that despite how season-forward BBW is and how they're all about the holiday marketing, their Halloween fare is always kinda blah. First of all, their focus is always mainly on the bodycare..which is fine...although not everybody is into bodycare and if you're like me, you completely ignore them. And as far as home fragrance goes, it's always Shit Cinnamon Poopkin over and over and over! Even backintheday during the Golden Age, it was moreorless the same thing...although at least we had scents like Pumpkin Patch/Carving and Spiced Cider to mix things up. I mean finally a few years ago we got a candle version of Vampire Blood and eventually we got Ghoul Friends but there's always that persistent push for Shit Cinnamon Poopkin. With the exception of SCP, the few home fragrance we see is bodycare inspired and they kinda feel like an afterthought. Here's the thing...especially in recent...

 I forgot to mention this in my last NEWNESS UPDATE post More candles are being added to the WB side and these candles are a little different. These candles have the typical colored frosted tumblers we always see BUT these have..wait for it..GLASS LIDS! Sooooo fancy! *eyeroll indifferent shrug And of course, because of said glass lids, it warrants these candles being more expensive than usual. I mean I guess the glass lids are cool but as always it annoys me that more emphasis are being put on the looks of the candles and NOT the scents themselves. Like, look at the scent choices were getting for this collection... Vanilla Birch (meh), Vanilla Bean Noel (even bigger meh), Winter Candy Apple (biggest meh of them all), White Gardenia (cuz nothing says Christmastime like friggin White Gardenia). Presumably Twisted Peppermint is probably gonna be added as the other 2 members of the BBW Holiday trifecta are in attendance. And I'm surprised Winter and Fresh Ballsack haven't been ...

So lately more winter/holiday candles have been slowly trickling into stores.  That said, I have something I want to say first... I just want to go on record by saying that I do not advise or recommend you spend all your free time making multiple trips to your nearest BBW store for the sole reason of seeing what newness has popped up. People seem to be forgetting that we are still in a pandemic with outbreak cases recently spiking and has the potential to further increase as we get into the colder months. There's been this push by a few candle enthusiasts on social media telling followers to get to their stores and sniff and buy everything in sight as if things are back to normal and COVID19 is no longer a thing. Now I am relaying information that I've seen/heard about what candles are coming and you can take that information and do with it whatever you want. If you take one lone trip to your nearest store and make a safe masked socially distanced day out of it, fine. If li...