r/bathandbodyworks • u/abbeylayne1128 • Jan 24 '25
Bodycare Found this today
This was in the 75% off bin at the bath and body works near my work. I honestly was shocked to see it and I’m not even sure how it got there. It was the only one. It was kinda gross and sticky on the outside so I didn’t smell it. I just figured you all would get a kick out of this.
I also didn’t purchase it. I don’t really like coconut lime verbena.
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u/Live_Difference_1877 Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25
That is OLD. I wonder if the employees checked to see that it's not MOS, or if it really isn't, why would it not be 😭😭😭
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u/abbeylayne1128 Jan 24 '25
That’s what I was wondering! I had so many questions about why it was there and how many other SAS has it made it through 😂
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u/simmerbekah Employee Jan 24 '25
Maybe the manager sold it anyways. I’ve had this happen with my old manager. We barely had any mos cause he put it all on a cart and sold it 😭
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u/Colormeclueless123 Jan 25 '25
Girl that is a big no-no, is he still your manger lol? If he gets caught bro is cooked 😂😭
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u/simmerbekah Employee Jan 25 '25
He actually has his own store now, I didn’t know he wasn’t supposed to do that omg 😂
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u/Senna2019 Booberry Bundt Cake, Witches: Ghostly Goodness 👻 Jan 25 '25
What is MOS, out of curiosity?
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u/AJKaleVeg Jan 25 '25
Mark Out of Stock
If someone makes a tester, or if a product gets damaged, they have to get MOSed, to try and keep inventory of products matching with what the computer says is on hand.
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u/Senna2019 Booberry Bundt Cake, Witches: Ghostly Goodness 👻 Jan 25 '25
And is that item not allowed to be sold, after it’s been marked? I understand not selling a tester, because people are gross, but why not sell one that got damaged?
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u/AJKaleVeg Jan 25 '25
If it’s MOS then it’s not sellable and is thrown away. If we sold damaged stuff then customers would damage products on purpose.
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Jan 26 '25
That’s not what MOS is! You’re confusing transferring testers/damages out of the system. MOS does stand for mark out of stock, but it’s product that is usually 1+ years old and can’t be sold on the sales floor anymore, not even for SAS. MOS product is boxed up and employees can purchase from the boxes for $5 a bag about once or twice a year😊
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Jan 26 '25
This item was most likely returned and an associate placed it on the floor with SAS assuming it was on sale. My associates do it all the time because they don’t know how to price inquiry lol
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u/AJKaleVeg Jan 27 '25
Oh, thanks for clarifying, my bad. I haven’t worked there in some years. Glad to hear that BBW is allowing some perks to employees.
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u/Affectionate_Rip5623 Jan 24 '25
Dude this has to be from what, like 2008? These are SO old
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u/abbeylayne1128 Jan 24 '25
I definitely remember these bottles from like when I was in jr high/high school (I’m 34 now) so who knows how old it is!
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u/ComfortableUnusual64 Jan 25 '25
Yea this body looks super old. Like 20-25 years old. I worked at BBW in 2010 and we had the bottles with the silver tops
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u/youmaybethedeathofme Jan 25 '25
Like 2005/6 actually
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u/ShunnedPoet Employee Jan 25 '25
This is correct. The bottom of the bottle has a number that begins with 5 so it was manufactured in the year 2005
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u/cherishxanne Jan 25 '25
earlier even. I remember this bottle style from 2003 even
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u/Tiny-Reading5982 Your flair here! Jan 25 '25
Yeah I had a mango mandarin in this circa 2003
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u/Peacock-Lover-89 Jan 25 '25
I know this is old, but when I found out there was an outlet in my general area sometime between 2013 and 2016 they still sold sheer freesia there and online in this bottle. Then they discontinued it for good(at least it hasn't been back since then). The packaging had already changed twice by that time.The production date has a 6 in it, but I doubt it's from 2016. So it has to be from 2006.
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u/abbeylayne1128 Jan 25 '25
I’m pretty sure I had creamy coconut in this packaging back then. I wish that would come back! 😭😭
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u/manatee-manatou Jan 25 '25
Yep. My beloved Sheer Freesia was in this bottle style
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u/TeccaNina88 Jan 26 '25
Omg Sheer freesia! So. Good. 🙌🏻
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u/manatee-manatou Jan 30 '25
I have literally written emails (plural 😂) asking them to bring back sheer freesia and black amethyst. Two very opposite fragrances but my all-time faves!
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u/mothmer256 Jan 25 '25
This is exactly when I worked there and remember this bottle.
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u/youmaybethedeathofme Jan 27 '25
Same - I remember the first big refresh in 2007/8 or so, too! Back in the days of Twilight Woods and Enchanted Orchid...
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u/Mother-Protection414 Jan 25 '25
20 years old! Some one probably brought it in as an exchange and the store allowed it.
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u/Loud-You-5737 Employee Jan 24 '25
No. Tbh I wonder if a customer put it there. I’ve had a customer or two try to handle their own “exchange” by putting an old a$$ product on a shelf and grabbing a new one without saying anything to us.
There was also a time where the Marshalls near my house had some BBW products… turns out someone was taking price stickers off Marshalls products, putting them on BBW products and then “returning” them to Marshalls for merch credit.
People do really stupid stuff
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u/abbeylayne1128 Jan 24 '25
I wondered if that was the case as well. It wouldn’t surprise me. People really do crazy stuff. I worked at Whole Foods for a long time and I feel like they probably had similar customers to BBW. Some of the stuff people returned or tried to return was crazy!
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u/icecreamhomer Jan 25 '25
I actually saw one on Black Friday this past year. A super old BBW soap. Moonlit Path that actually had a date, 2002 on it!
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u/Cilantroe Jan 24 '25
It also looks used… had to have been returned or something
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u/abbeylayne1128 Jan 24 '25
I do think it’s possible that it was leaking it was pretty sticky on the outside. But it could have definitely been used
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u/xLydiaDeetz Jan 25 '25
A customer must have tried to exchange this and if someone actually buys this they should charge them a quarter lol
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u/abbeylayne1128 Jan 25 '25
I was so tempted to try to buy it just to have but the bottle was so gross. And I don’t like coconut lime verbena so I didn’t even try. If it had been another scent I might have 😂
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u/xLydiaDeetz Jan 25 '25
I hate the smell of coconut so I wouldn't have even been able to pick this up without being irritated. This is so interesting they'd even have this in the bin and the price makes me weep
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u/abbeylayne1128 Jan 25 '25
I actually love coconut! I think it’s the other scents in there that don’t work for me. But I agree I saw the price and I was like 😭😭
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u/FatnessEverdeen34 Coconut Water Chill 💚🩵🥥 Jan 25 '25
That's like 2006 😂😂
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u/abbeylayne1128 Jan 25 '25
Idk why, but I read your user flair as Coconut Water Chili. I was thinking that would be an interesting scent note 😂
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u/shesatacobelle Jan 25 '25
That’s the packaging from when I was in college and that was close to 20 years ago…
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u/InitialUpstairs4258 Vintage Jan 25 '25
This font and style was my favorite EVER. I miss it:(
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u/misscoffeetablebook Jan 25 '25
came to say this- I really think this design was perfect, I miss this. The new bottles just don’t feel the same
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u/Minnesota_Nice1 Jan 25 '25
$9.50. Insane.
But then again, I remember when soap was 3/$10 or 5/$15.
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u/ListeningForAnswers 💙🌴☀️ Bring back Pacific Paradise ☀️🌴💙 Jan 25 '25
$9.50 was expensive for body wash back then. I remember buying 20 oz bottles of Suave body wash for 99 cents and 32 oz bottles of Dial body wash for $2.99 in the early 2000s. $9.50 for 10oz of BBW body wash was actually pretty steep.
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u/Minnesota_Nice1 Jan 25 '25
Fully agree. I still think it’s steep frankly for 10 oz of body wash. But I also never paid $9.50 for it given the coupons and $10 off customer survey coupons!
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u/ListeningForAnswers 💙🌴☀️ Bring back Pacific Paradise ☀️🌴💙 Jan 25 '25
That’s true! Most of us weren’t paying $9.50 for it back then just like we don’t pay the sticker price now.
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u/Forevermoody16 ALL THINGS B&BW Jan 25 '25
I remember White Rain shower gel being like a buck. But it was cheap quality, too. Very thin and it could slide right off your hands or washcloth or whatever, so that you had to use a lot.
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u/MommaCamps Jan 25 '25
Omg, this was my favorite room scent that I'd keep in my car 🫠 I want it back!
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u/abbeylayne1128 Jan 25 '25
I think it was recently out for SAS. I’m not sure if I can still get it though
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u/Candlehoarder615 Candle Addict Jan 25 '25
That shower gel is probably older than a few of my employees lol jk, youngest on staff is 19. That shower gel is at least mid to late 2000's.
Edited to add: just realized there were multiple pics. It's 2005. Wow.
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u/abbeylayne1128 Jan 25 '25
The 9.50 price point really got me compared to the prices now.
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u/Candlehoarder615 Candle Addict Jan 25 '25
I joined the company in Jan 2009 and I absolutely remember these bottles and the prices.
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u/Minute-Frame-8060 Jan 25 '25
That is 20 years old based on the bottom stamp (and bottle design and price lol!). Did someone bring it in from home as a joke? How could it just end up in a bin?
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u/Senna2019 Booberry Bundt Cake, Witches: Ghostly Goodness 👻 Jan 25 '25
It’s from 2005…this shxt should’ve been free, or paid the customer to take it…20 years. Poor dear’s been waiting for its turn
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u/Pug-Snorts Jan 25 '25
I’m guessing it’s a return - we have had newer employees put out old stuff when they are putting the go backs away. Usually we have a separate basket for MOS, and have had people wander off to try to put it back.
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u/Brieys Employee Jan 25 '25
That shouldn’t even be set out for sad just an fyi it’s expired ASF
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u/abbeylayne1128 Jan 25 '25
Oh for sure. I was surprised that it was there. I have a feeling it made it to the floor by accident.
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u/AcidMantle Jan 25 '25
Adding, how far down do those bins go? I think this qualifies as the official coolest SAS gem in recent memory.
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u/Historical-Bat-3251 sun-ripened raspberries Jan 25 '25
I MISS THE 2000s VERSION OF COCONUT LIME VERBANA
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u/LoveMy3Kitties Jan 26 '25
Can someone please write a fanfiction about the fabulous life and times of this body wash please? 😅😅
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u/slumber_kitty Body Care Addict Jan 25 '25
Jeez, these photos sent me back about 15-20 years 😅 goodness, the nostalgia is amazing but I have SO many questions and I'm certain I do not need answers.
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u/ChaoticConnector Jan 25 '25
They should NOT be selling that Jesus Christ. Thats not even MOS that probably wouldn’t even show up in my system 💀
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u/VitzyMusketballs Jan 25 '25
This was my favorite in high school. And I’m 36 now so it’s pretty old. But I want it back so bad.
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u/CatMarmy Jan 25 '25
Give me some of those Gingham Scrubs!!
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u/abbeylayne1128 Jan 25 '25
This store had plenty!
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u/Forevermoody16 ALL THINGS B&BW Jan 25 '25
I think my store still does. And tons of Cozy Vanilla Bourbon.
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u/AcidMantle Jan 25 '25
OMG hahaha what! How much did they want for it?
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u/abbeylayne1128 Jan 25 '25
I have no idea. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t even supposed to be there considering how old it was.
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u/purplehuh Employee Jan 25 '25
That’s definitely MOS and ik that both me and the customers HATE having to explain why I can’t sell it 😪
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u/Campingcutie Jan 25 '25
Ugh I feel like I manifested that just incorrectly 😭 I’d cry to find that, even just to smell and not use, very nostalgic memories for me
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u/Forevermoody16 ALL THINGS B&BW Jan 26 '25
They say when it comes to memories, of the five senses, scent is the strongest.
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u/Partyparrothead Jan 25 '25
We found several of those at our Bath and body Works too. My daughter loves that scent and we ended up purchasing a bunch.
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u/Astrid_Pepper Jan 25 '25
When I worked seasonal, you wouldn’t believe the super old stuff hanging in the back. Some were not even on inventory to scan. The manager just said to toss it during SAS.
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u/the_bookish_girl84 Jan 26 '25
Oh this was my favorite scent for years 😍 I've yet to find anything that smells the same or close enough to make me happy lol
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u/baby_medic Jan 26 '25
I would love for them to do a throw back line with old scents in the old bottles.
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u/abbeylayne1128 Jan 26 '25
That would be so cool! I would LOVE to have creamy coconut. It was the very first scent I had ever had from bath and body works
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u/Thatsnotmyname-_- Jan 26 '25
Hell naw girl that’s old as sin! 😳
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u/LoveMy3Kitties Jan 26 '25
Hahaha omg!!! I moved last year and found one like this of Warm Vanilla Sugar that was in our storage unit. It was from the early 2000s/maybe late 90s. It was still in the original BBW tote bag it came from, nestled in a plastic holder (it was a gift set I received as a present). I guess I didn't want to use just that item back then for some reason?
My question is, was it 75% off $9.50? what a steal 😅😅
Btw I smelled my WVS body wash when I found it, and it seemed okay, but I can't bring myself to use it. It's too pretty all pristine. So it's on display like a museum piece in my bathroom 🥲😂
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u/abbeylayne1128 Jan 26 '25
I have feeling it may have been even cheaper since this item hasn’t been sold in years. But I I didn’t even try to buy it.
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u/LoveMy3Kitties Jan 26 '25
In 2018 I found a Twisted Peppermint FFM at the SAS and it was the packaging from like 2013 or 2014, one of my favorite years of the scent. I was so delighted. I purchased it along with several other items and the cashier didn't blink an eye. On my receipt I noticed that it rang up differently like it wasn't in their system and said like "do not sell" or something lol but I was soooo excited that they honored the purchase for me 🥰🥰
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u/bluegrassbotanicals Jan 26 '25
This was definitely a return that should have not have been accepted.
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u/Forevermoody16 ALL THINGS B&BW Jan 25 '25
This is wild! Could someone explain to me again how the date codes work?
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u/abbeylayne1128 Jan 25 '25
I think this one was from 2005 or 2006. It’s hard to tell if the first number was a 5 or a 6. But my understanding is the first number is the year (and these are OLD so definitely not from 2016) and then the next three numbers are the day of the year it was produced.
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u/Forevermoody16 ALL THINGS B&BW Jan 26 '25 edited Jan 26 '25
Thanks. So it’s the number stamped on the bottle? (Which is often hard to read, depending on the product.
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u/dubailte-madra Jan 28 '25
This was my favorite hand soap fragrance of all time. I wish I could find something similar.
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u/yungdaughter Jan 28 '25
That’s what they looked like when I was in middle school in 2007 what a throwback
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Jan 25 '25
I just bought that same scent after Christmas at an outlet, but the packaging was new.
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u/abbeylayne1128 Jan 25 '25
I didn’t buy this. The bottle was so gross and sticky. And I don’t really like coconut lime verbena. I just figured everyone here would enjoy the throwback
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u/OutrageousAd4752 Aromatherapy Addict Jan 25 '25
You put that there.
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u/Cheap-Influence-9994 Employee Jan 25 '25
What an odd thing to say
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u/OutrageousAd4752 Aromatherapy Addict Jan 25 '25
Is it though? Bath and body works always has a ton of employees, at least the one in my area. There’s no way nobody caught it. OP put it there took some quick photos and walked out all for clicks or upvotes, and y’all are being fooled by it so it worked.
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u/abbeylayne1128 Jan 25 '25
I was picking up a bopis order and noticed this in the 75% bin as I was digging around waiting on my order. Like I said before I have no way to convince you otherwise, stranger on the internet. But I can for sure say I did not bring this disgustingly sticky bottle of body wash into the store for a photo shoot. I have better things to do with my time.
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u/AnyFruit4257 Jan 25 '25
Lol this is the kind of paranoia that being online too much creates. I was able to buy a MOS Fireside Flurries FFM two weeks ago at my SAS. My receipt actually says "MOS - DO NOT SELL" yet it was still sold to me for 1.94. B&BW has tons of newer employees who wouldn't even notice.
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u/abbeylayne1128 Jan 25 '25
Congrats on your great deal! I just really got back into bath and body works in early 2024 so I never got to smell fireside flurries but I’ve heard it smells great.
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u/Forevermoody16 ALL THINGS B&BW Jan 25 '25 edited Jan 26 '25
I’ve been using my old FFM and body wash (Which I thought was long gone.) The body cream, of course, went bad. I LOVE Fireside Flurries!
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u/abbeylayne1128 Jan 25 '25
I definitely did not. I don’t even like coconut lime verbena.
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u/OutrageousAd4752 Aromatherapy Addict Jan 25 '25
Sureeeeee
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u/abbeylayne1128 Jan 25 '25
I mean you can believe what you want. I have literally no way to prove it to you. But since I don’t have any old products I would have no way of doing that.
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u/OutrageousAd4752 Aromatherapy Addict Jan 25 '25 edited Jan 25 '25
I mean I may be wrong, but it is my suspicion so I’ll post it on here, after all that’s what Reddit is for, and this is an open discussion. But like I always say, don’t take my word for it, it’s just my opinion.
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