May 10, 2021

Bath & Body Works Semi-Annual Sale Summer 2021 Dates, Returning Items, More

I know, I know it’s too early to chat the Bath & Body Works Semi-Annual Sale Summer 2021 but hey, let’s talk about it anyway! The Bath & Body Works Semi-Annual Sale Summer 2021 starts is a little over a month away and starts on June 14 in stores and online.

Bath & Body Works following that Semi-Annual crappy new daily deals weekly thing that I hate so much. I’m a person that’s like, “listen if you got sh1t on sale just dump it in the yellow bins and we’ll all go digging through them and fight over the last limited edition dollar hand soap from Halloween 2020!” I dislike having to check in for new “weekly” deals. It’s irritating. I don’t want to drive to the mall every single week in June to see what the new deals are. Fact of the matter is you’re sort of forced to do that because if you’re anything like me you’re not shopping it on the website and paying shipping! So, here you are waiting in traffic, looking for a parking space, and getting into the store only to find out the deals suck.

Rant over.

Bath & Body Works why is the Semi-Annual Sale so complicated now and why do the deals suck so hard? I remember a time when you’d hit pay dirt in those bins. Yup, I’m bringing it up again but remember all that Tutti Dolci! My head explodes every time I think of it! There used to be so many great things on clearance now the regurgitate a bunch of stuff no one wants.

Sigh. Ok, I’m sorry. Do I sound pissy? I sound pissy right? Ahem…getting back to my normal sweet self….

The sale starts June 14th and lasts all month long and of course, there’s returning favorites to look forward too. The favorites returning are Cucumber Melon, Dark Kiss, Pink Chiffon, Love & Sunshine, and Cherry Blossom.

Sorry, can I restore back to b1tch mode for one moment?

Who asked for Cucumber Melon?

Anyway…..!

Bath & Body Works Semi-Annual Sale Summer 2021 starts soon. Keep those fingers, legs, arms, and toes crossed it’ll be better than the last few years.

Thanks so much to the ever lovely and sweet TinyBubblesFloating for sharing this info!

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  • kimkats

    Haven’t been excited about BBW since they stopped making the hand soaps with the little scrubby things in them. They stopped with the little plastic beads (because they had to) then switched to something else, and now it appears they’ve stopped making them altogether.

    SO – poo on you BBW!!! Used to get all excited to go get new scents of the scrubby hand soap at the sale – now I don’t care if I never set foot in your stores again. Evar!

    So there.

      • kimkats

        am NOT!!! (stomps little foot and hissy-fits out the door) 😀 Lol!!! It’s just that BBW has changed SO much since it started, and not in a good way. They used to have so many different things, and now it’s all soap, generic smelling sprays and shower gels. They really screwed up discontinuing the 3 in 1s they had. I would have bought those *forever* if they kept making them….
        Remember their makeup line? I *think* I still have a brush or 2 hanging around from them….

        • Isabella Muse

          Oh my! A new side of you I’ve never seen before ;-D You need to throw yourself on the floor for dramatic purposes! ;-D I know. I guess we have to roll with it and just accept it’ll never be the way we remember it. Gosh no…I mean, I remember Liplicious but didn’t even know they did makeup!

  • Jess

    I have not bought B&BW in untold millennia, but I LOVE cucumber melon… 😀
    That and Cotton Blossom are the two I really like.

    • Isabella Muse

      I’m not really a fan of cucumber melon to be honest but cotton blossom yesss!

  • Bernadette

    You are so right, the prices are not what they used to be nor is their inventory. It seems like when they get a new scent it is an old one I remember that they might have changed a note or two. Lot of them seem so similar. Dark Kiss and Japanese Cherry blossom and a couple others are my faves but most of the time they have the lotion and not the spray or vice versa. The prices are inflated so, that I usually just click it off because I probably have more then they do from the past good old day sales that I am using up. So I am on a mission to use up what I have except for my few faves and I sure don’t buy as much as I used to.
    I shop on line so unless I have used it before I don’t get it. Fell for that thus winter, and had to return a lot because I didn’t like them. Well until they get back to old day prices and ones that last I won’t get to excited. Sorry I had to rant.

    • Isabella Muse

      It’s all very repetitive sadly. They do a scent that’s “New” and like you said it just retains notes from some other scent that launched a few short weeks ago! 🙁 I’m trying to do the same! It’s hard saying no but I have so much I just need to use up! RANT AWAY! please rant 🙂

  • Dee

    I used to LOVE this sale! I could tons of stuff and use a coupon on top and walk out without doing a lot of damage to my wallet. Nowadays I barely pay attention to it because there isn’t anything to get excited about. We can hope this year is different!

      • Vera E Knight

        …and I haven’t gotten a coupon in a year !! And…I don’t like Cucumber melon either ! And….and…. don’t even get me started on Candle day !!! ….and….lol….but I will be there again just in case.

  • Connie

    I have to agree with your rant. I have been a fan of Bath and Body Works for many years now and wouldn’t use anything other than their shower gels. In the last couple of years, they bring out all of these OLD retired fragrances and the “deals” in the bins. There’s a reason they’re retired – no one cared for them. Also, I want to bathe with summer fresh beach scents and I would never want to smell like a pumpkin or an apple pie, for Pete’s sake. So, come on, B&BW, it’s time to offer some REAL deals to your loyal customers on the scents we want to buy.

  • Angela

    I was just looking for info about the summer sale and found your blog, LOL. And I agree 100%!!!!! The last few sales have sucked & I hardly bought anything. Can’t they bring back the hard to find good stuff like Happy Vibes or Velvet Tuberose which smells AMAZING?! Ugh I don’t care about Cucumber Melon nor any of the common ones?!

    • Isabella Muse

      Likewise 🙁 I don’t know what is going on with them! I know right? Me either! Cucumber Melon is the least likely scent I’d buy!

  • Niki

    I’m new here, but goodness I have to agree with all of the comments! I just came back from shopping and I’m quite dissappointed. I don’t shop there often, but all of the new scents gave me a headache today. I miss my Fresh Waterfall scent (era 1990s). Lol. I haven’t found one scent from them that was similar.

    I was excited to see they brought the sparkling glitter sprays back, but they’re only in two/three smells I’m not a fan of; and I noticed they did get rid of several lip balms! The store consisted mostly of bath items (aka soaps), and their aromatherapy line has been condensed, too.

    Just like Victoria’s Secret – changing for the worst. Gosh, I miss the Very Sexy haircare line. Lol

    Oh, and I found out today that VS and BBW will no longer be connected? Crazy…

    • Isabella Muse

      it really is very disappointing lately 🙁 Oh really! What happened? Is someone buying out vs? And I’m with you I miss very sexy haircare too!

      • Niki

        Not sure. The sales associate even seemed to be out of the loop, as well. I’m sure VS is trying to redeem itself; but if they would just return to the way the business was in the 90s and early 2000s, they’d be alright. It’s kind of like Fredericks – they started going downhill after 2005, too (in my opinion). As silly as it sounds, I miss the water and gel pushup bras – the clothing lines, in general. The fragrances from both VS changed as well. The Very Sexy scent changed and so did the Angel scent. I just miss my old perfumes and full body care products – now I understand our parents’ generation about certain products changing or disappearing. Lol.

        And one lip care product that needs to come back full force is Venom. Man, that was my favorite gloss!

        • Niki

          Oh, and sorry for the delay in my response. I’m running after a little one!

        • Isabella Muse

          I agreed about Fredericks! There stuff went down before VS or BBW. It’s sad. SAME HERE! I always hear my dad with “it’s not like it was when I was young” he’s freaking right LOL! When did we get old!? I loved freaking Lip Venom! Duwop still sells it on there site!

        • Michelle

          Omg I thought I was the only one who LOVES those water/gel push ups bras!!!! They were the best bras I ever owned. My final one happened to die of a slow painful leak….while on vacation lol. I thought I just dripped water on my shirt, but that spot kept growing!!!! I have tried a few VS bras since then but they suck.

          SAS has sucked so badly. I used to buy bags full of 75% off products, it was like Christmas seeing what would be in the bins! Now it’s the same damn scents over and over, and the prices are awful. I got so excited over the “early access”� yesterday online for members…. Only to be very sadly disappointed. The prices on some items were actually HIGHER!!!! I’m going to the mall tomorrow, but it’s 45 minutes away (I live in Hicksville), and it’s not possible to drive there multiple times.

          • Angela

            I totally agree re: the 75% off bins they used to have! Sure isn’t the same anymore, they used to bring back a ton of retired scents, & good ones at that, for 75% off! My local store had 1 table with 75% off, it was mainly the bake shop stuff & a few floral scents. Definitely not like it used to be, but I will keep going every week & see what else they get in stock.

          • DM27

            Same here, I checked the prices online and didn’t think the sale was any different than what they usually offer. I also called a couple of stores to see if they brought back any retired scents in store, and they didn’t.

            I’m just going to keep doing what I’ve been doing for a while now, is buying perfume oils in BBW type scents from perfume-oils.com and wholesalesuppliesplus.com and making my own shower gels and sprays. Maybe not the same as having authentic products, but some of the scents they have are actually quite accurate. Perfume-oils even has Herbal Mist, one of my favorite 90s scents.

  • Debbie

    I just started buying from BBW in 2019. Only because I had a coupon. There’s no way I’m paying full price for a 3 wick candle. The stores were closed almost a year because of the virus. I had 5 body sprays that I didn’t care for. I went to exchange them at my local store.. They said since they were retired fragrances, I could exchange them for other scents. They would give me $3.50 credit for them if I wanted to return.
    Is this correct?
    I thought they had 100% guarantee on everything they sold?
    Do you know when they changed their policy?
    I found 3 wick candles at Walmart for $5, that are equal or better than BBW .
    I will not be buying anything anymore from BBW.

    • Debbie

      Sorry for the typo, they would NOT let me exchange them because they were retired fragrances.

    • Isabella Muse

      I don’t know about any change in their return policy but normally they are very good about exchanging for something else. They also should take into consideration if you brought during the pandemic and you couldn’t get back to exchange them in the year or so things have been rotten they could at least offer you store credit to get something else. I’m sorry I don’t have more info for you 🙁

  • Vera

    You guys should try Goose Creek Candles…omg……new sales every week and the best candles ever. I am burning ‘Bedtime Stories’ and ‘Banana Marshmallow Ice Cream’ now, and it smells so good. I am addicted to these candles.

  • DM27

    Thanks for posting the sale starting date. I might buy some White Citrus shower gels if I see any in store. My favorite time period for this store was 90s-early 2000s, but I did like the shampoos and conditioners they had a few years back (in the signature scents). It’s changed a lot over the years, for sure.

    • Isabella Muse

      My pleasure 🙂 I hope they have it for you! It sure has changed dramatically!

  • Sondra Barrett

    I would like to find some bath & body works vanilla bean perfume even though it is discontinued. I want to find some

  • Connie Fischer

    I’m so glad to see another comment today because it pushes me to tell you my story. During the sale, I bought a few body washes. One was Perfect Peony which I had never tried before. I showered using it. Shortly after, I noticed hives breaking out. The next morning, I used the shower gel again and the hives were now all over my body. I went to my doctor and told her this was the only new thing I was using. She told me that her son had bought and used some B&BW lotion. Twice, he broke out in hives and she had to get him from school and give him medicine to relieve the hives. My doctor agreed it was the Perfect Peony and I had to take a steroid and another couple medications for them to go away. I was miserable. I called B&BW Customer Service and was given the run around saying someone would call me. They then sent a “whopping” $15 e-gift card to me! No one called so I called their medical department. Someone there asked for a lot of medical information on me and said that since I had hives on my scalp too, but had not used the shower gel on my scalp, that the hives were not from the shower gel and that my doctor was wrong!! Can you believe that? My husband urged me to just let it all go. Now, after using and loving B&BW shower gel for 20 years or so, I am afraid to use any of it again. I’m out money and am insulted by the company’s attitude. My son tells me that the company is on shaky ground anyway and to just wait until they finally go out of business and then we will see their products at Target and Walmart. Sorry to be so snide. Hope no one else has a reaction like this to any of their products. Good luck, Ladies!!