Love Always Wins
Bath & Body Works (2023)

Though Love Always Wins
Said my friend with all the friends
Who died suddenly

Before his motto
Proudly became a fragrance
I bought still blindly

Before two versions
Loving the second better
Cuz moar perfumely

After the go board
Rainbow stones and starfruit smells
So allegedly

Before honeycomb
Citrus & Wood Sage, Pocket-
Bacterially

After comparing
On skin and doll-cut paper
Blotters so cheaply

With video of
Chiaki-san and Victor
Sync-tactically

Before said gai-jin
Composed cascade of gaiku
Standing underly

Upon perfect day
For perfect situation
Coincident'lly

Whereupon these things
All fell into some new place
Realizingly

Of bittersweet truth
That we may not be around
Elementally

When winning happens
For love and not just ourselves
Yet beauty fully.

2023 Love Always Wins - "starfruit" and coconut water. 2023's version smelled like separate perfumes mashed together without anything connecting them into a cohesive whole. A year of aging has managed to make this scent more cohesive - the fruit is waxier now and works better with the coconut water. I don't like the strange powdery funkiness of its literal coconut water note. Dries down to a woody amber molecular with a hint of sweetness.

2024 Love Always Wins - citrus and sage. This is a more cohesive scent reminiscent of a department store masculine. Leans citusy and woody. Thankfully not as soapy as many scents of its type. Seems to share the same drydown ingredients as last year's version.

Since these are fragrance mists, they evolve to their woody amber drydown within the hour.
I found that the drydown lingered for a good 4 hours. I'm also able to smell many popular moleculars (ISO E Super, ambroxan, etc) - so YMMV.

If you happen to have both versions (the 2023 and 2024) - they work well as a layering combo.
The 2023 lends the 2024 a pleasant creamy quality and dampens some of 2024's astringency.
I don't know whether Bath and Body Works intends to change this scent every year.