🎄 2025 Style and Beauty Advent Calendar Discussion ***SPOILERS*** THREAD 10

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Final one before the opening threads. Who is starting the opening threads and for which ones? Please share the links below. There’ll be Waifs and Strays one, DIY, and possibly Harrods, Space NK, Liberty?

On 1st December, the opening threads start, I’ll ask MN to update this post with links.

If you’re looking to continue the chat beyond BACs there is the Beauty chat thread here by @OvaHere : https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5444855-beauty-chat-freebiesgifts-with-purchaseoffers-thread-six
and the perfumistas thread here by @IDontHateRainbows : https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5443053-scent-of-the-day-part-six-what-will-the-friendly-perfumistas-spray-next
Both threads are quite spendy, be warned!

Waifs and strays opening thread
thank you @AprilLady

Liberty opening thread www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5452449-liberty-beauty-advent-calendar-2025-opening-thread thank you @IlovePond

Empties and beauty hoarders rehabilitation thread www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5441152-cant-stop-buying-hoarding-beauty-treats-youre-in-good-company-here thank you @Experiment627

[New links added by MNHQ at OP's request]

@Twinsandsome there's a free sapin 35g candle at space nk too, and double points from tomorrow so you would earn a bit more back via ndulge. One of the diptyque seasonal candles is out of stock though.

I ordered SpaceNK fragrance, even thought I have one as its too good deal to resist. I love the acne studios and pistachio and strawberry to name few and they are worth it.

Thank you all I’m going to go for space nk double points to get my candles which works out at basically £10 off per candle as they are over £50 each. I LOVE Diptyque candles but remember when they where £40 each now close to £60 each and then £72 for the pine one 😮‍💨

Another who ordered Space NK earlier.
I had £30 in points so works out to £90. The chat another DedCool on the perfumista’s earlier this week made me want to test this and a few others I want to test and keep.
I am sure a few will land on Vinted but will keep this one for Jadvent

Which ones are you getting? I love them too :)

Hi all. Other than SpaceNK are there any decent calendars left in stock please? My partner has asked which new perfume I'd like but I'd prefer a Jadvent. I hadnt heard of the idea until I read this thread the other day 😃

Turns out SpaceNK telling me they've shipped my order was a slight exaggeration. They are planning on shipping it and have told DHL about it. DHL are presumably trying to find the HazMat suits so they can pick it up.

Oh no @OchonAgusOchonOh🙀 but I am laughing at the idea of DHL looking for the HAZMAT suits 😹

@OchonAgusOchonOh How long has it been now? This has been a really poor show from SNK. At least now we all know that hazardous in bold and italics is the very worst kind of hazardous indeed! 🙄

It's nearly 2 weeks now. I ordered Monday off last week.

I got an email from DHL saying they expect to deliver on Monday and they have started the customs process but it's still listed as not collected on Spacenk. They start the customs paperwork beforehand anyway.

Interestingly, the SNK website now says the fragrance calendar can't be shipped to Ireland, which is a bit weird. I'm assuming though, as DHL have the hazmat suits out that mine will be shipped.

So long as it arrives before Christmas, I'm fine with that as I plan on doing the 12 days of Christmas with it.

I've just had a WhatsApp conversation with DHL about delivery options. All the couriers, including DHL, normally just dump on the doorstep and run but they wanted me to absolve them of all responsibility if they delivered without a signature.

I'm at home most of the day on Monday but it would be sod's law they would arrive for the hour I won't be there or else in the middle of a meeting I can't skip out of. So it will be left on my doorstep on Monday. Hopefully.

Hi guys. I trawled round JL and SpaceNK today spraying myself with as many of the perfumes in the SpaceNK calendar as I could find to see if buying it was a good idea.

Needless to say, with my unsophisticated tastes, my responses ranged from: Dear God, get it off me, to it’s ok, but not very nice.

Anyway, after a lovely chat with the girl at SpaceNk about the perils of niche perfumes for the ordinary punter and being stalked round JL by staff thinking I was after nicking the testers, I have arrived home.

You know where I am going with this 🙈- having ‘dried down’, one of the perfumes on the back of my hand now smells wonderful. It’s a kind of warm, maybe vanillery scent but I haven’t got a clue which of the ones from the calendar it could have been.

Do any of you with the calendar and/or familiar with these perfumes have a clue which perfume it could have been so I can start stalking it on eBay? Thanks

Was it DedCool Taunt from SpaceNK?

That's a really nice vanilla one.

@OvaHere - thank you! That sounds like a likely candidate. I am going to another SpaceNK tomorrow, so can see if they have another tester there to try.

SpaceNk have removed most perfumes or added comment can't ship to Ireland. I hope it's not permanent

That's not good. I know a lot of companies don't ship perfumes internationally, presumably as they are hazardous, but I thought the big ones like Spacenk and CB would do it.

Settling down to watch Confessions of a Shopaholic and thinking of everyone in this thread 🫡 hope you’re all having a great December! And enjoying all the BACs 💅

There's a posh lip stick in one of the top tier calendars that's a bit marmite in terms of colour. Tried it with some lip balm and it was very nice. Bit much on its own but works well and more forgiving when a bit sheer.

I've the sephora calendar and so far it's quite perfume heavy - I don't wear perfume too often so it's slightly wasted on me. The malin and goetz oil one is lovely but might give the others away!

I received my perfume order form Space NK yesterday, the delivery date for my Fragrance Advent is 1st of January but I only ordered it few days ago. I am half tempted to cancel it as i already have one and it feels greedy but there are few of the 10ml that are expensive and I like and it makes it worth it... Or so I like to think.

I will be very disappointed if they stop shipping perfumes to Ireland long germ

That's a long time to deliver!

I had a look at some random perfumes on the website and it's not all perfumes. Maybe they have an Irish warehouse and are still shipping anything held there? It's very odd.

I am hopeful it's only due to being peak season and unable to cope with perfume delivery due to the complexities around shipping. Niche Beauty, Notino, Look Fanastatic, Cult Beauty - all are able to ship to Ireland so they should figure it out. The roumer is they are getting the lease for Victoria Secret's store in Dublin and that will make them huge - it will rival Brown Thomas in terms of beauty floor size, if not bigger. They should look after us!

Hopefully.

That will be some store! Their current one on grafton St is tiny.

I was going to make a Diptyque perfume purchase today but the free Sapin candle offer has vanished already within 2 days! Same on Diptyque site, the offer only lasted a day. Disappointing! Hopefully someone managed to bag double pointas and the free candle.

Sorry I fell off this thread and all the BAC threads after falling down and smashing my knees on 1st December. I've also been having building work done which has gone a bit wrong, so none of my Glossybox, M&S or Anthropologie BAC's have really been opened. Still, I suppose they will make for a happy Triple Jadvent.

Hope everyone is well.