UNDER-$50 FRIDAY: Bath & Body Works Brown Sugar and Fig

Close your eyes and imagine a decadent Martha Stewart-style Thanksgiving dessert buffet. Now smell. Apple crisp warm from the oven with a bubbling brown-sugar topping; cinnamon-laced pumpkin pie with vanilla-flavoured whipping cream; roasted nuts, honey and ripe fall fruit.

Seems this feast was the fantasy scent inspiration for Bath & Body Works new fall collection, which includes scrubs, lotions, shower gels and body mists in a quartet of autumnal fragrances. Choose from Dreamy Vanilla Woods, Honey Autumn Apple, Sweet Cinnamon Pumpkin and the back-by-popular-demand Brown Sugar and Fig.

But the great thing about scent: you can have your cake and eat it too. Total indulgence; zero calories.

Brown Sugar and Fig wins ranking as our favourite of the bunch, especially in the Creamy Body Scrub and Body Lotion formulas. The fragrance, with fig, passionfruit and peach; a heart of warm coconut milk, vanilla orchid, jasmine and freesia; and a decadent dry-down of caramelized-brown-sugar, fig leaves, maple, vanilla bean and musk is warm and sweet—but not overwhelming—and wears nicely all day long.

Bonus: Both the collection’s scrub and body lotion contain jojoba oil and vitamin E, so not only will you enjoy the delicious scent, but you’ll also be rewarded with soft and soothed skin. How’s that for a sweet treat?

Bath & Body Works Brown Sugar and Fig Creamy Body Scrub, $14; Triple Moisture Body Cream, $12.50; Body Lotion, $11; Shower Gel, $11; and Fine Fragrance Mist, $14; www.bathandbodyworks.com

PHOTO (ABOVE): iSTOCKPHOTO/JOAN KIMBALL