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

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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

Photo of M&S Beauty Advent:

@viccabelle
This is what I made a note of for the LF fragrance calendar
Givenchy l'interdit 10ml
YSL black opium 7.5ml
Neom de stress candle 75g
Rabonne Olympea intense 6ml
Estée Lauder Bronze Goddess eau fraiche 10ml
Carolina Herrera Good Girl 10ml
Jo Malone wood sage and sea salt 50ml
Laboratory perfumes amber 5ml
Marc Jacobs Perfect 5ml
Goldfield & Banks ingenious ginger 10ml
This Works Pillow Spray10ml
Floral.Street Arizona Bloom 10ml
Viktor & Rolf Flower Bomb 7ml
Le Monde Gourmand Fleur de Blonde 30ml
Juliette has a gun not a perfume 5ml
Alia main character -not sure what this is
Olfactive o Gourmand 8ml
Miller Harris Scherzo 7.5ml
White Company lime & Bay home spray 15ml
Tocca Florence 5ml
Billie Eilish dual roller ball 6ml
Versace Crystal Noir 5ml
Juliette has a gun Miami Shake 5ml
Molton Brown sunlit Clementine & vetiver 7.5ml
Aery Candle Happy Space 150g

Hopefully that is right

Snap! Just saw it on Instagram.

Ooh, my fragrance calendar is being delivered this afternoon! 😃

I'm looking forward to this one. Fingers crossed it's as good as last years 🤞

Mine is at the depot near me but no message at to when it will be delivered yet 😕

My Harrods Fragrance is being delivered today too although I will only believe it when it is in my hands.
Could it be that Harrods actually get this year right (obviously ignoring the release debacle)

I always find M&S boring. Anyway sad that I am. 2022 was worth £300 ish and £40, 2023 worth £300ish and £45, 2024 worth 300ish and £50 and now it's £300ish and £60.

Hopefully all the Harrods fragrance calendars will be delivered today. I have only just got the text to tell me it will be delivered this afternoon.
Will I be disciplined enough not to open any of the doors until December?! 😆

I will hold judgement until it is released but I feel.similar about M&S . I feel like I can already predict what is in there from previous years but who knows maybe this is the year they surprise us . Nice box though . Bella Freud seems to be the advent design guru she did a few of the Elle advents as well and produced a few candles for them It would be great if she has done a candle for M&S as an exclusive now that would be interesting

Just got the text to say my calendar is being delivered between 11:08 to 12:08 - yayyy!! 🥳

Ooh, exciting! Mind isn’t coming until later this afternoon. 😃

Mine’s still not dispatched 😭

Message to say mine is coming late afternoon. Hope it's early in the slot as I'm out for the last half hour. It's fine as others are in the house to answer the door but I sort of didn't want to draw attention to it. 😂

I ordered the main Harrods as soon as I saw the Space NK reveal the other night and knew it wasn’t for me
There was a free gift of a Creed sample that got added to the order.
I got a message to say “my Harrods order” is being delivered today .
When clicked on it the order seems to just consist of the sample !
Should I be worried ? Bit weird they are sending it separately? Bit of a waste of petrol , not very eco friendly if that’s the case ?

By any chance, did anyone manage to get a screenshot / content list of the Look Fantastic men's advent calendar before it was taken down?

The beauty calendar has a dispatch date of 1st Sept. So I wouldn't worry until then. I should've ordered it then too, the creed sample is no longer a free gift 😕

I have just ordered my Harrods calendar, kicking myself I didn’t register for points last year. I can’t believe I am still using some of last year’s contents 8 months later.

I ordered Liberty a few days ago using this link which still seems to work. I’m not a beauty drop member so I don’t know about that, but I was able to use some vouchers that I had.

https://www.libertylondon.com/uk/pre-order-liberty-beauty-advent-calendar-2025-R641279006.html?clickref=1110lnzoIre&app_clickref=1110lnzoIre&utm_source=partnerize_uk&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=beautydetective&partnertype=Content

New AC alert - not ordered from them before but good brands (mz skin, allies etc)

mintdbox.com/pages/mintd-advent-calendar-waitlist-2025?omnisendContactID=6724810c144e34ad8bfebe38&utm_campaign=campaign%3A+17th+August+2025+-+Coming+Soon%3A+MINTD+Advent+Calendar+2025+%28689b623b21ee908fcc517cda%29&utm_medium=email&utm_source=omnisend

Eeek!!! It's arrived 😍😍

@JoRaRaRa Ohhhh

@JoRaRaRa Oh that looks stunning!!

Slighty jealous of you all getting them delivered today. Mine still says step 1/4. 😢

All present and correct, I've smelt 5 of them (oops) - after saying I wasn't going to. But I can confirm that the 5 I've smelt are gorgeous 😍😍

Ah that's disappointing. I thought they'd all get dispatched at the same time. I did see an unboxing video yesterday (didn't watch), so some people have received them yesterday 😕