Firecracker Pop

First spray reminds me of opening a cherry Kool-Aid packet, sour sweet sugar straight to the nose complete with the puff of powder that makes you wanna cough. Within seconds it begins to dry down and settle into the skin and it's cherry koolaid in water, still very very sweet. As it begins to wear on the skin I'm reminded of the original sweet pea, which at one point was very very sweet, more sweet than pea, or floral as it is now. Today's rendition gives hair spray or shampoo like quality but I can remember wearing it when I was a teenager and it was very very sweet which is why I liked it. The drydown of Firecracker gives me those nostalgic vibes, of flirting with boys and forgetting to do my Spanish Homework. Lucky rabbit keychains, stealing a cute boy's jacket and not giving it back, dying my hair black, walking home in the rain, smuggling (and drinking) Fruit Punch Four Lokos on the bus, and the possibilities of life being endless and unknown, and smelling like raspberry candy, otherwise known as Sweet Pea. I love Bath & Body Works for recycling the same scents over and over again so you can revisit the scents you feel emotionally connected to, I just hate how they constantly reformulate the current ones and keep the same name, and the scents you once loved you have to find again with a totally different name sometimes with years in between rereleases. I do wish they were more transparent about re-releases rebottled and renamed. You have to go kissing many frogs, or spraying and trying many scents in the store before you find your long lost Prince.

i want to preface this review by saying i realize i will sound psychotic when i speak my truth... but i must! this doesn't feel like a b&bw spray so much as it does a bourgeois, niche arthouse perfume. if i was doing a blind test and someone told me that toskovat' had gotten really into lana del rey and bruce springsteen and wanted to release a perfume dedicated to americana i'd be like WOW THEY NAILED IT!!!! and pay the absurd 150 euros for a 30ml of it. sure, it does have sickly sweet bomb pop elements it promises but that's a mere amuse-bouche to all the other elements. it's not just a bomb pop, but 4th of july encapsulated. it opens with the bomb pop which quickly melts on the hot summer sidewalk. then you get smoke from fireworks and the bbq + pool water splashing on cement - the whole celebration. i'm glad some of the other reviews mention the concrete/asphalt and pool water notes so i know i haven't completely lost it. the only place it falls short is longevity which, as always from b&bw, is pathetic. but that's something many niche fragrances struggle with too, the main difference being this costs $5 for over 200ml so i will continue to drown myself in it anytime i want that burst of 4th of july nostalgia.

Love it. First time smelling it I was on a hike this year 2025, and a fellow hiker in front of me had a delicious scent trail. A light clean bright scent. At the end of hike I asked her what she was wearing that smelled so good and it was only body lotion by Bath and Body Works Firecracker pop. Luckily scent works on me too. I have the body wash, body cream and body spray. Lasts all day. At first smell it reminds me of Hawaiian Punch soda. As it dries down it is a clean fruity bright scent. Glad to have finally discovered this scent as it was exactly the kind of hot weather scent I had been looking for. Another great spring or summer scent I just discovered is Avon Faraway Bali another clean bright fruity floral! Also, a fellow hiker was wearing this and had an amazing scent trail. Faraway Bali is more similar but not a dupe for Chloe L’eau. Just similar scent family.

I absolutely adore this scent! By far my favourite from bath and body works. You can smell the cherries first, and then some sweet fruit smells, and then some citrus ones. It's extremely fruity, but the cherrys actually smell like fruit and not something like cough syrup, which a lot of cherry scents often smell like. It smells like your walking past a smoothie bar, and someone is making a cherry smoothie. So you can mainly smell the fruity cherry, but you can also smell hints of other fruit in the background. Harmonising perfectly with the sweet scent of the cherry, and the citrus at the end is amazing, as well! And it it balances the sweetness out perfectly, so its a lot more softer and less in your face.

I've heard from so many people that this reminded them of Hawaiian Punch, but I didn't expect it to be the EXACT smell when I tried it the first time! Honestly, you could give me a blind scent test of this and a cup of Hawaiian Punch, and I wouldn't be able to tell the difference. It's a very strong sugar scent, which is incredibly nostalgic for those of us who grew up with summers full of fake fruit juice and pining after the wild-colored popsicles displayed on the side of the ice cream truck.