warm and cozy
like to wear during winter or cold nights

I love this one. Especially in the wintertime and around holidays. It's a warm, cozy scent. I feel happy and relaxed when I wear this. I think this is definately a fall/winter scented lotion. Moisturizes very well too.

I bought this in Xmas 2003 mainly because of the hype and realized when I got home that I didn't really like it as it seemed too strong on the caramel note or something (can't remember quite what I didn't like about it). I was intending on returning it but I guess I never got around to it because today I found it (I still had the receipt taped to it!) and thought that it would definitely had gone off after 2 years. To my surprise it hadn't! After recently discovering LUSH's lovely Honey I Washed the Kids soap, I have been craving a vanilla-caramel-toffee scent in other body products, and VBN fits the description! The scent lasts for a few hours, which is great considering most of the BBW lotions I have don't. Now I don't have to search for a matching scent to LUSH's product. I'm surprised at how the scent is still good after 2 years and glad I didn't go back to BBW to return it :)

This is in my opinion one of the best scents by BBW. It is supposed to be vanilla with caramel scent and I think its just that! I love it! It lasts long and it is strong as most BBW scents do. It IS the EXACT same scent as the Sugared Shortbread from Christmas 2001. Just renamed. What people has to remember is that: it is just the lotion we are talking about here! The A.B. lotion, soap, splash, gels and so on smell totally different, a vanilla smell, but totally different, a more plain vanilla with plastic, heh.. So that is sad, there is no real matching products for this, even there are lots of products with the same scent name..

Meh- smells like a normal vanilla to me- even a bit candy-ish. Sometimes it smells annoyingly sweet. Otherwise just like any other bbw lotion.

I really don't like this smell. It smells too foody. More like vanilla frosting than anything else. It's kinda nauseating, unlike Warm Vanilla Sugar, which I *LOVE*.

A discontinued scent, unfortunately. This was much sweeter and less plasticky than Warm Vanilla Sugar. Oh, how I wish BBW brought this back...or at least made Vanilla Bean Noel a year-round scent!

This is my all-time favorite BBW scent. I love it. But they do not make it anymore. I purchase several bottles when they brought it back sometime last year. I'm stocked for a few years. =)

This is just great for the holidays. Smells like Vanilla, Sugar, and Sugar Cookies with a tint of carmel. I love this to death. I think this is better then last years Sugared Shortbread, but thats just me. If you enjoyed last years SS, get this. You'll wanna stock up. I sure know I will, along with getting more for the holiday season coming up.

I loved this vanilla scent. I wish they still had it. Warm Vanilla Sugar is a poor substitute. It is too strong and fake for me!

This is my favorite vanilla lotion that Bath and Body Works make. On me it's a true foody warm vanilla goodness. I like mixing it with Coco Cabana. Another limited item. I do like Warm Vanilla Sugar but think Vanilla Bean is much better. It does moisturize my skin well enough and the scent last pretty long for what it is. Many people don't like this vanilla, so I would try before you buy.

I was in BBW a few days ago and they had big sale tables everywhere. An SA came over when she saw me looking at this and said that I should pick up a bottle now since the scent has been long discontinued a while back and they very rarely get any in. So I grabbed one without smelling it first. Dumb me!! This smells fake and plasticly to me. Yuck! I would have returned it except someone told me BBW throws out all the returns they get so I gave it to a friend.

Very classic vanilla scent. Basic, true, and I don't smell any other notes in it. Just Vanilla!
Love B&BW lotions - great formula. I only find this particular scent now during the semi-annual sales, but I must say I enjoy this occasionally instead of Warm Vanilla Sugar, which is a little more subtle of a vanilla and has some other notes in there. Vanilla Bean is free of the buttery-ness of Vanilla Bean Noel. Nice companion to the Body Shop's Vanilla oil perfume if you want to smell good enough to eat! continued >>

Yummy yummy vanila scent, not as complex as the warm vanilla sugar(which has sandalwood and coconut tones as well as vanilla), just a nice, basic vanilla, not to sweet either, just perfect, I just wish it hadn't been discontinued. I love WVS but I wish I could still get vanilla bean cuz it's good for certain times/moods/occasions when I'm not in the mood for WVS. And I heard on here vanilla bean noel is similar to vanilla bean, it doesn't come CLOSE. :(

I absolutely love this scent and hope that they bring it back next Christmas. My hubby bought me two bottles for stocking stuffers, but I want more! :) It smells like warm cookies and the scent lasts all day on me.

I admit it, I never liked this scent and I wasn't at all upset when I heard it was discontinued. I thought that is was too artifical smelling. I like sweeter vanilla scents such as the BBW Warm Vanilla Sugar or VS Vanilla Lace.

My favorite scent of all time. I hadn't worn it for a week and when I started wearing it again I fell in love all over again. Smells like cookies.
When I first had it on I was at Target and I walked up to the checkout and a girl was standing there, right after I walked up she said "Something smells goood." That was me! :)

I got the Vanilla Bean Noel version in body lotion form. It starts out smelling very buttery but quickly dries down in about 5 minutes to just a lovely sweetness with faint vanilla. The 2nd ingredient in this lotion is glycerin, which makes it highly
effective on dry skin and even works well on heels. I was told by the BBW sales associate that the Noel version is a bit sweeter than the regular (discontinued) version of Vanilla Bean, and heard elsewhere that Vanilla Bean Noel is "butter cookie" under a new name for the holidays.

This is one of my favorite B&BW scents, as well as one of my favorite vanilla scents. When I put this on, I'm half-tempted to lick my own skin! continued >>

This smells soooo good. Like a sugar cookie. It's a soft scent though, so not too overbearing. I just can't get enough. I'm going back tomorrow to buy some more. It's only out for the holidays. I'll need to stock up!