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🎄 2025 Style and Beauty Advent Calendar Discussion ***SPOILERS*** THREAD 2

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BakeOffRewatch · 09/08/2025 18:25

Link to thread 3 added by MNHQ - www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5396898-2025-style-and-beauty-advent-calendar-discussion-spoilers-thread-3

Annual Style and Beauty Advent Calendar discussion thread. First AC reveal this year was 23rd June. First luxury reveal was 2nd July. Thread 1 here: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5360770-2025-style-and-beauty-advent-calendar-discussion

The regulars on the thread mainly discuss luxury BAC and this dies down by September when everyone has purchased and forgotten the contents. Then it goes into discussion on what’s selling out, what hasn’t and what deals and discounts to be had on ACs in the lead up to December. Then in December we move onto AC opening threads!

There’s a separate thread for GWP, discounts and other deals here: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5338957-beauty-chat-freebiesgifts-with-purchaseoffers-thread-three

A thread for the Liberty Beauty Drop here: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5253698-liberty-beauty-drop-spoiler-from-the-despatch-date-part-9

MN has a great Christmas board for deals and early gift buying here: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/christmas

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LUXURY MULTI-BRAND
Brown Thomas
Cult Beauty Classic Curation and UK-Only Limited Curation with more fragrances https://www.cultbeauty.co.uk/c/advent-calendar/ 3rd September
F&M £265 https://www.fortnumandmason.com/2025-fortnums-beauty-advent-calendar Pricing by category post here https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5360770-2025-style-and-beauty-advent-calendar-discussion?reply=146293148
Fenwick £250 https://www.fenwick.co.uk/blogs/daily-muse/beauty-advent-calendar
Flannels
Harrods £250, £99 www.harrods.com/en-gb/c/beauty-advent-calendar pricing by category post here https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5360770-2025-style-and-beauty-advent-calendar-discussion?reply=146296157
Harvey Nichols £250 https://www.harveynichols.com/stories/beauty/harvey-nichols-beauty-advent-calendar/ 4th September
John Lewis
Liberty £275 https://www.libertylondon.com/uk/pre-order-liberty-beauty-advent-calendar-2025-R641279006.html_ pricing by category post here https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5360770-2025-style-and-beauty-advent-calendar-discussion?reply=145402406_
Selfridges £250 https://cloud.mail.selfridges.com/beautyadventcalendar25
Space NK £260 https://www.spacenk.com/uk/gifts/beauty-advent-calendars/beauty-advent-calendar-MUK200055896.html
Vogue https://shop.vogue.co.uk/pages/british-vogue-festive-calendar-2025

HIGH STREET
Anthropologie
ASOS
Beauty Bay
The Body Shop https://www.thebodyshop.com/collections/beauty-advent-calendars
Boots
Elle
French Pharmacy
Glossybox
Holland & Barrett https://www.hollandandbarrett.com/info/beauty-advent
Jarrolds
LIB Latest In Beauty x Stylist
Lush £125, £179, £205, https://www.lush.com/uk/en/c/christmas-advent-calendars
L’Occitane
LookFantastic £105 https://www.lookfantastic.com/c/waitlist/advent
M&S
Next
Revolution Beauty £50 https://www.revolutionbeauty.com/uk/en/gifts/advent-calendars/revolution-beauty-makeup-advent-calendar-2025/1868648.html
Sephora https://www.sephora.co.uk/c/beauty-advent-calendar-waitlist
Ted Baker
The White Company

BUDGET
Aldi
Sainsbury’s

SINGLE BRAND BEAUTY
Arran £85 https://arran.com/products/advent-calendar
Charlotte Tilbury
Elemis https://uk.elemis.com/advent-calendar-2025-sign-up
e.l.f.
Gruum
Jo Malone
Liz Earle
Lumene
Neom https://neomwellbeing.com/pages/neom-wellbeing-advent-calendar-sign-up-page
Shisheido https://www.shiseido.co.uk/gb/en/newsletter-advent-calendar.html

BATH & BODY
Ciaté
Cowshed
Rituals

JEWELLERY
Oliver Bonas
Liberty
Accessorize

FOOD
Bonne Maman jam
Degusta
Paxton and Whitfield cheese
Fortnum & Mason Tea and Biscuits

MEN’S
Liberty

FRAGRANCE
Acqua Di Parma
Diptyque
Fragrance Shop
Harrods fragrance
Harvey Nichols fragrance
L’Artisan Parfumier
Jo Loves https://www.joloves.com/pages/advent-calendar
Jo Malone
Penhaligons
Perfume Shop
Sniph
Space NK fragrance

K-BEAUTY
Stylevana
Yesstyle
Stylekorean

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viccabelle · 14/08/2025 20:26

Oooh I'm really liking the full Selfridges reveal. I would like to try all of the perfumes. Love AB eye cream and there a couple of my HG products (hourglass, CT setting spray, colour wow). Yeah there's a meh eyeliner and a couple of fillers but I think I would use and enjoy it all!
I want to see Sephora, cult and space nk full line up and will choose either this or one of them.
I'm also interested in LF or Glossy box in the lower price range then I want to check out M&S.
I've already bought Liberty so I'm looking at getting 3-4 overall but in my defence I rarely have to buy products over the course of the year and will have used up most of last years by Christmas.
For me, I love reading about them and watching unboxings so I feel that I get value for money 🤣

tellmewhenthespaceshiplandscoz · 14/08/2025 20:30

Much obliged MrsB 😊

Doubleraspberry · 14/08/2025 21:36

RainbowZebraWarrior · 14/08/2025 15:42

Crikey. I had about six of those Juliette has a gun 5ml perfumes and I chucked them. Kept getting one in every bridal beauty box I ordered. I don't even think I bothered smelling them. Blush

I LOVE the Juliette Has A Gun This Is Not A Perfume. Very happy to pay postage for any other unwanted 5mls out there heading for a bin!

JoRaRaRa · 14/08/2025 22:09

I'm not sure if this has been shared yet (apologies if it has) - I managed to grab a screenshot on insta of The Fragrance Shop's Advent Calendar 😊

🎄 2025 Style and Beauty Advent Calendar Discussion ***SPOILERS*** THREAD 2
OvaHere · 14/08/2025 22:20

@JoRaRaRa I asked Chat GPT to try and identify the perfumes. This is what it came up with (take with a big pinch of salt obvs!!!)

Alright — let’s go through this methodically, zooming in on each visible product in the image and matching it to known fragrance bottle designs.
Here’s my best breakdown:
Top row (on top of the calendar, left to right)

  1. Glass candle – Amber jar, likely The Fragrance Shop’s own home fragrance candle.
  2. Hugo Boss Bottled – Miniature with “BOSS” printed vertically on a white label.
  3. Carolina Herrera Bad Boy & Good Girl (travel sprays) – Two slim, cylindrical bottles, one gold-toned and one black.
Inside open compartments
  1. Paco Rabanne 1 Million – Gold bar-style miniature (from compartment 4).
  2. Small red bottle – Possibly Jean Paul Gaultier Le Male Le Parfum or Carolina Herrera 212 Men (hard to be certain from angle).
Front row (on the table, left to right)
  1. Azzaro Wanted – Gold revolver-cylinder-style bottle.
  2. Paco Rabanne Fame – Small robot-shaped bottle with a blue head.
  3. Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue – Frosted bottle with a pale blue cap.
  4. Mugler Alien Man – Deep red bottle with white spray top (likely Alien Man or Alien Man Mirage).
10. Jean Paul Gaultier Le Male – Clear bottle with a muscular torso shape, but filled with light-colored liquid. 11. Dunhill Icon – Textured cylindrical black/silver bottle. 12. Montblanc Explorer – Black cylinder with silver cap, small size. Far right 13. Versace Eros (likely) – The turquoise, square bottle with Medusa logo, barely visible in bottom corner near ribbon.
JoRaRaRa · 14/08/2025 22:34

@OvaHere I'm not sure, I don't have good knowledge of fragrances apart from the really popular ones. I think the small pinky red one on the 20 box might viktor & rolf flowerbomb? I'm a big fan of the l'interdit but I've got a few bottles already - if it was the new one, I might've been swayed.

QueefofSheena · 14/08/2025 22:49

I'm disappointed to see Moncler in the Flannels Fragrance cracker again. I’ll probably still get it for Killian. Flannels take BLC if anyone has one. A family member has one and it covered the cost of postage last year.

MidnightMeltdown · 14/08/2025 22:58

Selfridges has a scalp brush FFS. Is this the new jade roller? I bet Look Fantastic will have a scalp brush too. They love filling doors with stuff like this.

HolaLolla · 14/08/2025 23:07

QueefofSheena · 14/08/2025 22:49

I'm disappointed to see Moncler in the Flannels Fragrance cracker again. I’ll probably still get it for Killian. Flannels take BLC if anyone has one. A family member has one and it covered the cost of postage last year.

I have BLC, but Flannels not coning up anymore neither on BLC app nor website 😭

IDontHateRainbows · 14/08/2025 23:45

MidnightMeltdown · 14/08/2025 22:58

Selfridges has a scalp brush FFS. Is this the new jade roller? I bet Look Fantastic will have a scalp brush too. They love filling doors with stuff like this.

I do use a scalp brush daily but a £5 one from Amazon is as good as anything more expensive and its not like you need to replace them, they last for years. So a draw of doom for me.

Thelifeofawife · 14/08/2025 23:52

@HolaLolla I tried BLC for Flannels too and nothing came up. I’m sure they used to offer it

Zoetrope1 · 15/08/2025 02:09

Doubleraspberry · 14/08/2025 11:35

My favourite scent of all time is Bulgari Thé Vert, which is very hard to find now. I’ve got a couple of bottles stashed but I’d be thrilled to have 18 in a cupboard!

They’ve just rereleased this as an EDT. Apparently it smells extremely similar if not the same as the original

MiaN · 15/08/2025 06:11

Not interested in the flannels perfume crackers this year. Selfidges looks good

JoRaRaRa · 15/08/2025 06:16

MiaN · 15/08/2025 06:11

Not interested in the flannels perfume crackers this year. Selfidges looks good

I quite like the flannel perfume set, but I'm going to wait until look fantastic and SpaceNk release theirs. Or if it goes down in price, I might nab it.

Selfridges looks a lot better now that the full contents has been revealed. Not sure it's tempted me away from Harrods though 🤔

QueefofSheena · 15/08/2025 06:41

I’m sure the Flannels fragrance crackers got reduced last year as they didn’t shift at first. I may wait and see. Pity about BLC

I had the Perfume Shop AC in 2023 and thought it was a far better offering than The Fragrance Shop, cheaper too. I’m still using the box for storage and it had extras like a refillable atomiser and a little mirror in a decent case. I’d definitely get another but they sold out so quickly last year.

TreesinthePark · 15/08/2025 07:13

Selfridges looks good to me but in a practical/useful way rather than exciting. Maybe because I've tried most the products already. I'm not tempted at full price.

M&S looks good, it's the qualifying spend that usually puts me off but I've been looking at a dinner set there so could work out this year.

But the one I'm really waiting on is SpaceNK!

psuedocream3 · 15/08/2025 07:38

Selfridges full reveal does make it look much better than the original spoilers. S

t I am hoping SpaceNK pull it out of the bag again this year. If not it'll either be the Harrods 12 day, it was cheaper with the 10% off last year and regretted not buying it, or Selfridges.

I'm definitely going for the Flannels perfume for the Kilian.

MonkeyTennis34 · 15/08/2025 07:46

Like the look of the Flannels…not sure about the “cracker” element.
Does anyone know, are the items individually wrapped inside the cracker?

QueefofSheena · 15/08/2025 08:00

@MonkeyTennis34 the items are individually wrapped in tissue paper

Ladedahlia · 15/08/2025 08:01

I looked at the Liberty AC contents and found them very disappointing. A lot of travel sized perfumes and not much else.

IDontHateRainbows · 15/08/2025 08:03

Not ever so impressed with the selfridges calendar this year. Last year was much better imo.
I may just stick with the liberty one for beauty and get the fragrance ones from hn and harrods

Doubleraspberry · 15/08/2025 08:04

I get MiL M&S every year and always buy the Christmas PJs to qualify.

@Zoetrope1 thanks, I’ll have a look!

HollyGolightly4 · 15/08/2025 08:12

Have to say I dislike the Flannels packaging and the M and S reveal looks like primary school font 🤣. Perhaps I'm overthinking! I do like the look of the cracker, but I think I'll hold on till LF fragrance which I think a lot of us are interested in!

MrsBnow12 · 15/08/2025 08:32

I have lowered my expectations of the Lookfantastic fragrance one as they state the value is £485 and it’s 24 doors, I bought the Perfume Shop last year so have a number of the ones I expect will be in this.

Top of my list is Harvey Nichols but am waiting for Cult Beauty, Space Nk and Vogue before making a decision on the over £200 one.

Georgieporgie29 · 15/08/2025 08:50

Has anyone had the Treatbox advent calendar? Thinking about it for my DD14. Also, is it one that sells out quickly or is it worth waiting for a discount?
thanks

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