Okay, so you wanna know how old Bath and Body Works’ Seaside Cotton scent is, huh? Well, lemme tell you, it wasn’t exactly a walk in the park figuring it out. Buckle up, ’cause here’s how I went about it.
First things first, I hit the Bath and Body Works website. Figured that’d be the easiest place to start, right? Wrong! They’re not exactly forthcoming with release dates for their scents. Like, they’ll tell you about new arrivals, but digging up the history of a particular scent? Forget about it.
So, next up was Google, obviously. I typed in “Bath and Body Works Seaside Cotton release date” and variations of that phrase. I scrolled through pages and pages of results. Mostly I found reviews and people asking the same question I was! Frustrating, to say the least.
Then, I started looking for clues in the reviews themselves. Sometimes, reviewers will say something like, “I’ve been using this scent for years!” or “This reminds me of something I used to wear in high school.” That kind of thing can give you a general timeframe. But with Seaside Cotton, nothing really concrete jumped out. Some people said it smelled “classic,” others said it was “new.” Super helpful, right?
Next, I remembered those Bath and Body Works scent forums and blogs. You know, the ones where people are OBSESSED with every single scent that’s ever existed? I dug around in those for a while. Found some interesting discussions, but again, no definitive answer on when Seaside Cotton first hit the shelves.
Here’s where things got a little more involved. I started checking eBay and other reselling sites. My thinking was, if I could find older packaging of the Seaside Cotton scent, that might give me a clue. Sometimes, the packaging has a copyright date on it, or you can at least get a sense of the era it’s from based on the design.
I spent a good hour or two scouring eBay listings. I looked at a bunch of old bottles of Seaside Cotton lotion, body wash, and fragrance mist. Finally, I found a listing that had a clear picture of the back of a bottle. And guess what? There was a date code printed on it! It wasn’t a release date, exactly, but it gave me a production timeframe. 2016! Okay, we’re getting somewhere!
But then I thought, what if that’s just a reformulated version of the scent? Maybe the original Seaside Cotton came out even earlier. So, I went back to the forums and started searching for discussions about “Seaside Cotton reformulation.”
Turns out, there were some whispers about a reformulation. Some people claimed the scent changed slightly around 2018 or 2019. So, the 2016 bottle I found on eBay was likely the newer version.
Alright, time for some more digging. I looked for older blog posts and YouTube videos mentioning Seaside Cotton. Finally, I stumbled upon a blog post from 2014 where someone mentioned it as part of a new summer collection! Bingo!
So, after all that detective work, here’s what I concluded: Bath and Body Works’ Seaside Cotton scent likely first appeared in 2014 as part of a summer collection. It may have been reformulated slightly sometime around 2018 or 2019. And that’s the story of how I (sort of) figured out how old Seaside Cotton is!
Was it worth all the effort? Probably not. But hey, now I know more about Bath and Body Works scents than I ever thought I would!
