The scent of a new purchase

I am a big fan of the Bath & Body Works chain, a love of which began during my first summer working at an all boys' sports camp in Maine. At the time it was all about their wonderfully scented range of hand sanitizer. As you can imagine they came in very handy throughout the summer. I have never had a phobia of germs or anything, but there is something reassuring about that small squirt of sanitizer on your hands and the pleasant scent it leaves behind. Therefore, it really wasn’t long after I arrived in Vancouver that I had my shopping radar firmly locked on a local Bath & Body Works location. Since then I have kept myself in constant hand sanitizer supply, taking delight in some of the new scents of each season, whilst stay true to a few old faithful ones. This past week, a friend and I decided to venture into the downtown Bath & Body Works store in the hope of securing a few items that would form the finishing touches on a baby gift for a colleague. For some reason, as we entered the store I felt compelled to pick up one of the newly arrived candles to smell without even looking at the label to see the scent. It is funny because it has only been in recent years that I have even started to have an appreciation for candles as I used to unfairly lump them in with fresh flowers and felt that both were an unnecessary expense especially as they did not last. My tune has definitely changed in this area and now I find not only are candles a welcome addition to my life, but also they really do smell divine and liven up the atmosphere of a room, both lit or unlit. Anyway the candle, French Caramel Cake, smelt good enough to eat and I couldn’t stop thinking about it even after we had left the store with our gift purchases. As a result, another lunch break was partially spent in Bath & Body Works smelling candles. There was a two for $5 offer so I needed to find a partner in crime for the deliciously scented candle I already liked. I don’t know why I thought this would be easy considering the number of options available, which is why I went from one chosen scent to three quite quickly and eventually the final four. Mint Chocolate, S’mores and Homemade Cookies were chosen as the complementing scents to the original French Caramel Cake candle. It was quite the foodie themed purchase, one that I cannot wait to light up the room with.

My new Bath & Body Works candles