🎄✨ Beauty & Fragrance Advent Calendars – Info/Chat 2026 SPOILERS 🎁 Thread 3 ✨🎄

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Welcome to Thread 3! 🥳

Firstly, a huge thank you to @ovahere for getting us started and looking after the first two threads. It's been lovely seeing everyone sharing news, spoilers and enabling each other already! ❤️

As agreed, we're taking it in turns to start each new thread this year. If this thread starts getting close to the reply limit, please post to let everyone know you're happy to start the next one so we can avoid duplicate threads.

A few festive housekeeping notes;
🎁 This thread contains spoilers.
🎄 Please be kind and respectful to one another.
💸 No judging anyone for their purchasing choices (or how many calendars they buy, we're all enablers here! 😂).
🎀 Feel free to share spoilers, offers, discount codes, GWPs, delivery updates and stock alerts.

✨ We're only on thread 3 and some members already have three advent calendars on the way 🎅 I think it's safe to say advent season is officially underway! 🎄

🎁 Available Now

Liberty – £285 (Beauty Drop members receive £25 off). Full contents revealed and available to order.
https://www.libertylondon.com/uk/beauty-advent-calendar

P. Louise – £250. Available to pre-order with payment instalments available.
https://plouise.co.uk/collections/wonderful-world-of-p-louise-advent-calendar/products/what-glows-around-2026-advent-calendar

John Lewis – Available on pre-sale via the app for MyJL members.
https://beauty-detective.com/john-lewis-beauty-advent-calendar-2026/

Harrods Beauty Advent Calendar – Now on pre-sale.
https://www.harrods.com/en-gb/p/harrods-of-london-the-harrods-beauty-advent-calendar-2026-000000000000284475

Harrods 12 Days of Hair & Body – Now on pre-sale.
https://www.harrods.com/en-gb/p/harrods-of-london-the-harrods-12-days-of-hair-and-body-advent-calendar-2026-000000000000284465

Harrods Fragrance Advent Calendar – Pre-sale currently sold out. Expected back in-store during September (date TBC).
https://beauty-detective.com/harrods-fragrance-advent-calendar-2026/

⏳ Coming Soon / Waitlists

Cult Beauty
https://www.cultbeauty.co.uk/c/advent-calendar/

Harvey Nichols
Beauty:
https://www.harveynichols.com/harvey-nichols/harvey-nichols-beauty-advent-calendar-2026-75896-258491/
Fragrance:
https://www.harveynichols.com/harvey-nichols/harvey-nichols-12-days-of-fragrance-advent-calendar-2026-75906-258490/

John Lewis Fragrance
https://beauty-detective.com/john-lewis-fragrance-advent-calendar-2026/

Space NK
https://www.spacenk.com/uk/gifts/beauty-advent-calendars/beauty-advent-calendar-MUK200063764.html

Elle
https://beauty-detective.com/elle-advent-calendar-2026/

Fortnum & Mason
Spoilers:
https://beauty-detective.com/fortnum-mason-beauty-advent-calendar-2026/
Waitlist: https://www.fortnumandmason.com/beauty-advent-calender-sign-up-2026

Boots (including the new fragrance calendar) https://www.boots.com/christmas/advent-calendars/advent-calendar-waiting-list

Sephora UK
Spoilers:
https://beauty-detective.com/sephora-uk-advent-calendar-2026/
Waitlist: https://www.sephora.co.uk/c/beauty-advent-calendar-waitlist

Selfridges (Beauty & Fragrance)
https://beauty-detective.com/selfridges-beauty-advent-calendar-2026/

LookFantastic Beauty
https://www.lookfantastic.com/c/waitlist/advent/?srsltid=AfmBOoovzs9M5Kt8-RM_31Q3_-JOa6N51uGggpe0hglvZbxC5Of7AFTH

LookFantastic Fragrance
https://beauty-detective.com/lookfantastic-fragrance-advent-calendar-2026/

Anthropologie (24 and 12 day)
https://www.anthropologie.com/en-gb/beauty-advent-calendar

Vogue
https://shop.vogue.co.uk/pages/vogue-festive-calendar-2026-waitlist

Glossybox
https://beauty-detective.com/glossybox-advent-calendar-2026/

OK! Beauty Box
https://beauty-detective.com/ok-beauty-box-advent-calendar-2026/

💄 More Calendars & Spoilers

Rather than making the opening post a mile long, our friend Mary has a brilliant roundup of lots more advent calendars and the latest spoilers, including Charlotte Tilbury, Jo Malone, Elemis, Lancôme, Tatcha, NEOM, Neal's Yard Remedies, Holland & Barrett, YesStyle and many more as they're announced.

👉 https://beauty-detective.com/category/beauty-advent-calendars/ 👈

🎅 Happy advent season everyone! 🎁

Here's hoping for lots more spoilers, bargains, discount codes, and maybe a little self-control (although judging by threads 1 and 2, that seems unlikely! 😄)

Ah thanks @BeanNaGealai

Thanks @LightandBreezy - I had forgotten that - didn’t they get taken over recently by a bigger company as well?

Unilever bought Tatcha in 2019

Thanks @SheilaFentiman I definitely read about it somewhere recently but couldn’t remember the details.

Broadly speaking they all own each other im
the end 😀

Ah @Thelifeofawife I must have missed it, darn! Thanks though. There's some in the Fenwicks set I accidentally bought yesterday and I'm sure it pops up in at least one BAC ... All the BACs I looked at over the past few days have begun to blur into one, I'm going to need a spreadsheet aren't I?

Even better than a spreadsheet - I searched @MaryBD 's site for 'rodial dragon's blood'! Marvellous stuff, thank you!

Thank you for reading! 🤗

Good reminder to get started! How to you guys tend to make yours?

Look fantastic spoilers. I can't remember if we know these already, so I'm sorry if I'm posting known spoilers 🙈

This looks good. Will wait and see what the rest of the calendar looks like though, as usually the most impressive products are revealed first in this game.

I colour code mine. Red I absolutely can’t stand, green I really want to try it or I have tried it and love it, black not bothered either way (usually stuff that I would give it a go but not usually my kind of thing such as essence or like mascara which I have sooo much of so I would get around to it eventually but not exciting), orange tried before and it’s ok so would use but don’t love it.

It’s started well. One to keep an eye on….

Me too but I use a traffic light system. Red is DOD, Yellow is fine/meh and Green is I would really like.

Ooh, after swearing off advent calendars this year, the Fenwick one actually looks good. Apart from the Elemis marine cream (yawn), but I can put that on Vinted.

I am considering using my incredibly crap memory as a super power for BAC opening - everything will be a surprise! This would mean no spreadsheet. I do like spreadsheets. Hmm.

My BAC list is growing and is now:

Pre-ordered
Fortnum & Mason
Avant

Joined waitlist but can't justify all (she says, already two BACs deep and it's flipping August, but okay)
Fenwicks
Elle
Cowshed
Cult Beauty

What did people think of the John Lewis one? I spent a while considering it yesterday but I think it's a little meh.

I wasn’t impressed with JL for the money, unless you want the UFO thingy. I think for £250 Fenwick is much better value

I really wish the other big ones would hurry up , I’m waiting for Diptique and Penhaligans . They presumably have a loyal fan base and don’t worry about people spending their money on other AC’s before they’ve listed / revealed .

On my list
Liberty (pre ordered)
Harrods fragrance ( pre ordered from ebay tout)

Selfridges fragrance+ beauty depending on contents
Harvey nichols fragrance
Poss space nk beauty

Liberty mens calendar

Be very interested to see if Parfums de Marly do a countdown calendar again

What's the silver 'implement' at the bottom left of this pic?

Tube squeezer?

Ah yes, that's more likely than the magnifying glass I thought it was 🤣

Do you think, between us, we'll order most of the BAC/FAC that are released? Has that happened previously? It sounds quite nice if so!

The multi brand ones definitely and probably a fair few of the single brands. Not close to all though, there are hundreds that get released. There's so many in the single brand range from very low cost to very high.

At some point a few of the AC's that cost thousands will get released and we'll joke about those. I think Dior did a 7k one last year.

Edit to add link for the curious
https://beauty-detective.com/dior-la-malle-des-reves-exceptional-advent-calendar-2025/

I'm shocked at that. Wow. I can't imagine having that kind of money to throw at that, and it being proportionate. £180-250 is a decent weekly shop for us (plenty of wine, to be fair) so could that mean £7K is a weekly shop to someone? Crazy. Point taken!

Does anyone remember the one with stickers? Was it Chanel or Dior..that was shocking 😮