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🎄 2025 Style and Beauty Advent Calendar Discussion ***SPOILERS*** THREAD 6

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BakeOffRewatch · 27/09/2025 12:18

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JoRaRaRa · 02/10/2025 15:27

MonkeyTennis34 · 02/10/2025 15:09

My JL BAC has arrived and it is magnificent 🩷

Ooo this is good insider information, that means some items will be appearing on vinted soon 😁

Also, it appears that Harrods have now cancelled my orders including the teddy chocolate advent calendar 😭 no email or communication, but it's now appearing as cancelled online. That's the thanks I get for sharing it with people and getting them more orders 🙄🤣

JoRaRaRa · 02/10/2025 15:31

MidnightMeltdown · 02/10/2025 15:23

@Growlybear83 12 day calendars definitely don’t count in your advent total. I bought Harrods fragrance and Harrods Hair and Body and am not counting them. Especially as I’ve already opened them both! I took the sunscreen from Harrods Hair and Body on holiday with me (which was my excuse for buying it in the first place!) 😂.

M&S also doesn’t count as that’s a ‘gift with purchase’ (in my head anyway 🤣).

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Agree completely, 12 day ones do not count 🤣 I'm now having serious regret about not getting the hair and body one, I did the same thing last year 🤦🏻‍♀️

RainbowZebraWarrior · 02/10/2025 15:48

MidnightMeltdown · 02/10/2025 15:23

@Growlybear83 12 day calendars definitely don’t count in your advent total. I bought Harrods fragrance and Harrods Hair and Body and am not counting them. Especially as I’ve already opened them both! I took the sunscreen from Harrods Hair and Body on holiday with me (which was my excuse for buying it in the first place!) 😂.

M&S also doesn’t count as that’s a ‘gift with purchase’ (in my head anyway 🤣).

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We have two 12 day Halloween 'advent calendars' which we will be opening back to back and so we are starting soon (24 days before Halloween) we also have other 12 day Christmas advents too. Definitely don't count.

I would really pee off the BAC haters with my Halloween advents. I can imagine the tutting now.

pinkchampagne1 · 02/10/2025 15:49

JoRaRaRa, are you planning to share the Harrods fragrance calendar with your DH? Mine has already decided a few of the fragrances are coming his way! 😏

Growlybear83 · 02/10/2025 15:52

@JoRaRaRa I bought the Flannels fragrance cracker. I think it was about £50. I’ve had it for the last two years and it’s been full of lots of interesting small sized perfumes. That’s my Christmas present to myself, and lives under the tree until xmas morning so thst defiiitemy doesn’t count 😆

Growlybear83 · 02/10/2025 15:54

@RainbowZebraWarrior. I’ve not seen a Halloween advent calendar - what sort of things will be in it?

@MidnightMeltdown. I agree with you about the m&S calendar - gifts with purchase definitely shouldn’t be counted.

JoRaRaRa · 02/10/2025 15:57

RainbowZebraWarrior · 02/10/2025 15:48

We have two 12 day Halloween 'advent calendars' which we will be opening back to back and so we are starting soon (24 days before Halloween) we also have other 12 day Christmas advents too. Definitely don't count.

I would really pee off the BAC haters with my Halloween advents. I can imagine the tutting now.

A Halloween calendar? Oooo!! Is it beauty stuff? I did toy with the idea of having a November advent calendar, but I wondered if I'd be bored of them by Christmas day 🤣 Do you have November off?

JoRaRaRa · 02/10/2025 16:00

pinkchampagne1 · 02/10/2025 15:49

JoRaRaRa, are you planning to share the Harrods fragrance calendar with your DH? Mine has already decided a few of the fragrances are coming his way! 😏

Nope, all mine 🤣 he's got the Liberty one which has a few fragrances in. I didn't like Nishane so I offered it to him but he didn't like it either, I think he'd like the men's fragrances in the fragrance shop one.

Which ones is he after?

JoRaRaRa · 02/10/2025 16:02

Growlybear83 · 02/10/2025 15:52

@JoRaRaRa I bought the Flannels fragrance cracker. I think it was about £50. I’ve had it for the last two years and it’s been full of lots of interesting small sized perfumes. That’s my Christmas present to myself, and lives under the tree until xmas morning so thst defiiitemy doesn’t count 😆

I keep looking at it, it does look nice 😍 and definitely doesn't count 😉

Growlybear83 · 02/10/2025 16:03

You know you need it! 😆😆

ajandjjmum · 02/10/2025 16:05

Can anyone point me in the direction of men's fragrance calendars please - I've been an little to absorbed in the women's ones so far! I don't think a 'grooming' calendar as such would appeal to DH, but he does like his aftershaves!

Kitchendilemas · 02/10/2025 16:19

IlovePond · 02/10/2025 15:08

The CB code is working for me too - such a shame that I really really don’t like their calendar!

My next Liberty BD voucher will come in about a week. IF the Liberty a/c is still around then, I’ll probably buy as I will have £60 credit towards it and could cancel my subscription if I wanted to.

Check junk mail as I got my voucher already & it was in junk folder

IlovePond · 02/10/2025 16:28

Mine’s not there @Kitchendilemas but thanks for the suggestion- I will keep an eye out.

Part of me hopes Liberty sells out so I can stop pondering!

JoRaRaRa · 02/10/2025 16:34

Growlybear83 · 02/10/2025 16:03

You know you need it! 😆😆

To go alongside my harrods fragrance calendar, the PDM calendar, the BDK perfume that I'm 99% sure my husband has already bought me and the HN fragrance calendar that I'll hopefully get my hands on? 🤣 I think I will kick myself if it sells out, like I did when the Selfridges fragrance wardrobe sold out 🙈

Growlybear83 · 02/10/2025 16:38

@JoRaRaRa We’ll look at it as a comparatively small outlay but with lots of exciting components. 😆😆😆

pinkchampagne1 · 02/10/2025 16:41

JoRaRaRa · 02/10/2025 16:00

Nope, all mine 🤣 he's got the Liberty one which has a few fragrances in. I didn't like Nishane so I offered it to him but he didn't like it either, I think he'd like the men's fragrances in the fragrance shop one.

Which ones is he after?

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He actually likes the Nishane so he can have that one. He also likes the Thameen and quite likes the Dorade. I think I am going to ban him from smelling any more!
I haven’t tried any of the sealed fragrances yet, have you?

FK1611 · 02/10/2025 16:47

Anybody with the JL calendar, was there the 15ml Initio Oud for Greatness body lotion included?

Snugglemonkey · 02/10/2025 16:49

I get a Liberty advent calendar every year from Dh and always love it. I love having the surprise every day, so do not want to look at the contents in advance. I am wondering though whether to switch things up this year and get the diptyque one. Any advice?

TreesinthePark · 02/10/2025 16:57

I panic ordered the CB with that discount even though I already ruled it out!

There are actually quite a few products I like but now is the time for me to get in gear with selling on Vinted. I don't even have the space to store all this stuff!

SoloCat · 02/10/2025 17:03

JoRaRaRa · 02/10/2025 13:58

Is that the teddy chocolate one? If so, that's what I'm waiting on 😕 I also bought some guerlain face powder and a night cream which were both reduced and then I got a further 10% off. I'm not sure if it's them that's holding it up, but I remember that they sent out a free creed fragrance sample to someone on it's own before they then sent the AC so it seems strange that nothing in both of my orders on Saturday and Sunday has been sent yet 🥺

Have you dropped them a mail? It’s a bit odd you haven’t heard anything. What does it say on your orders?

Caramelandsalt · 02/10/2025 17:10

FK1611 · 02/10/2025 16:47

Anybody with the JL calendar, was there the 15ml Initio Oud for Greatness body lotion included?

Sorry I don't look until the day of opening , someone else might pop along and let you know.

SoloCat · 02/10/2025 17:10

JoRaRaRa · 02/10/2025 15:27

Ooo this is good insider information, that means some items will be appearing on vinted soon 😁

Also, it appears that Harrods have now cancelled my orders including the teddy chocolate advent calendar 😭 no email or communication, but it's now appearing as cancelled online. That's the thanks I get for sharing it with people and getting them more orders 🙄🤣

I’ve missed some comments…so my recent post is a ignore one.

Really sorry to hear of your cancellation…I don’t really understand why they have seeing as it was in stock when you ordered. Another Harrods issue. 🙄

SoloCat · 02/10/2025 17:18

Noeggsontoast · 02/10/2025 15:19

@SoloCat I would say similar to verden and Bamford, though I will say I prefer Bathhouse

I might order one of their body products to try then…although I really do not need anymore “stuff” but I am kind of addicted to trying new scents of anything.

adventfrantic · 02/10/2025 17:37

FK1611 · 02/10/2025 16:47

Anybody with the JL calendar, was there the 15ml Initio Oud for Greatness body lotion included?

Oh good point, no it wasn't included in mine (which arrived today and I have ransacked!!).

Wonder if anything else is missing...

apart from this, it's a really good calendar for me, I love everything except for 2 items (Eve lom and red lippy)

adventfrantic · 02/10/2025 17:40

adventfrantic · 02/10/2025 17:37

Oh good point, no it wasn't included in mine (which arrived today and I have ransacked!!).

Wonder if anything else is missing...

apart from this, it's a really good calendar for me, I love everything except for 2 items (Eve lom and red lippy)

Nothing else seems to be missing although it says in the list it includes Elizabeth Arden protectant but in mine it's the hand cream (which I like much less).

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