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

[JoRaRaRa]

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! 😄)

I think that was Chanel. It was a shocker wasn’t it?

Can you imagine opening the drawer of your stupidly expensive calendar and getting a sticker 😩

🤣And sticking it on your lapel like a proud kid at the dentist.

Did it say well done?

I just had to look it up.
from AI:

The infamous $825 (£650) Chanel 2021 Advent Calendar went viral on TikTok for containing a sheet of branded logo stickers, an empty dust bag, temporary tattoos, and a plastic-feeling flipbook, sparking widespread online backlash over its low-value novelty items. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
The 2021 Controversy

• Released to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the iconic Chanel No. 5 fragrance.
• Shaped like a giant black-and-white Chanel No. 5 perfume bottle with 27 numbered boxes (numbered 5 through 31).
• Went viral after disappointed buyers shared unboxing videos showing novelty items instead of high-end luxury cosmetics. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Disappointing Items Included

• A sheet of branded logo stickers
• A small empty fabric dust bag
• Temporary tattoos
• A plastic wax-seal string bracelet
• A paper flipbook
• A ceramic or plastic-feel magnet 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

And a picture of the offending calendar.

Gosh, I'd be miffed if I paid all that and the majority of it was tat you throw in a drawer, but perhaps it's a more money than sense situation😂 ill take PK or CT over that rubbish anyday🤭

So I have 1 workbook, each calendar gets it's own tab. I score everything depending on size, brand and excitement level, anything I've had before gets marked with a duplicate label. I then pull out all the skincare products that fall into the following categories; cleanser, day serum, night serum, day cream, night cream and eye cream. It all feeds into a dashboard which calculates the scores so I can compare, and also makes it easy to compare cost, overall value, quantity of products, amount of true full size products. Any products that I've not had before that I've scored given top score for, I highlight in yellow so I can easily see which one has the most.

Imagine if you bought a Philip Kingsley calendar though and half of it was stickers and tattoos of Elasticizer, not even the actual product. That truly would be an insult.😂

We're quickly approaching the end of this thread. Is there anyone who wants to take it over for thread 4? As ova did 2 threads, I'm happy to do 2 too, but I don't want to hog if someone wants to do it 😊

Happy for you to do the next one, Jo. Also happy to take a turn at some point x

Oh @JoRaRaRa, I love ypur dedication to spreadsheets!

😂🤣😂🤣😂

You’re doing such a grand job @JoRaRaRa 🥰

@OvaHere Thanks for the Dior BAC info, very tempted - obviously need to decide whether I want this or a new kitchen; it’s a tough call.

@JoRaRaRa I’m loving your spreadsheet. I also have one workbook for all of the AC’s I’m interested in, but not quite as in depth as yours.
I’ll have to bow out of running the next thread as I go away in the morning. I’ll try to pick one up later 😌

I find the John Lewis one a rip off. Sorry, but they have a gazillion mini's and travel sizes. Which isnt bad perse, but not for the price they want for it. They dont even do the Rituals full size, I mean c'monn....

It wouldnt be more than 150 for me.

That one looks good. Its products I will actually use. Its a definate YES for me. Also want the fragrance one.

So far

Definately:

LF Beauty+Frag
Selfridges Fragrance, if I can get it
Harrods Fragrance, if it goes online again.

Probably:

Glossybox

Maybe: (depending on the final reveal but probably not how its looking now)

Elle
SpaceNK
Cultbeauty

Desperately Waiting for reveals:

Skins
De Bijenkorf
Harvey Nichols Fragrance and Beauty

A few more spoilers for Glossybox - I think a few of you guessed the commodity perfume, I can't remember if anyone said the Huda primer though. The milk orchid perfume is gorgeous 🥰

Fenwicks looks good- have you discounted it? (Because your lists aren’t long enough yet 😂).

Milk Orchid is lovely but I have this one. Depends what's in the rest of the calendar as to whether it's worth it for me. It might be I suppose, the PT blush and Medik8 are still good items.

Edit to say and Huda primer I do like that one.

Glossybox has potential- not many products yet and no price. Need to wait for the full reveal.

They have a lot of stuff my skin probably cannot handle that well. I have very sensitive combination skin and have found that a lot of BACs of the higher end have skincare brands in it that put a lot of allergenics in there such as perfume, BHA/AHA and retinoids.

And i dont like some of the combinations with the eyelashcurlers, PK and CT crud. Or the things I am interested in are the travel sizes/mini's or the perfumes are no good to me. Is it me or have they become stingier? Upping the prices whilst going down on sizes 🤔

I try to be better than last year. I think I ordered at least 10 😬

I found an unopened M&S advent today from two years ago. Stuck one of the perfumes in it on Vinted for £2 )it’s only a small own brand 10ml) but I’ve had an offer of £1.20. It makes me laugh that something so cheap still gets people offering 40% off.

I’ve just remembered that I bought the 2025 S&G calendar in the Boots sale and put it away for this Xmas 🙀

I have zero interest in S&G but got carried away by a bargain!

I watched a YouTuber opening that Chanel a/c at the time - she couldn’t stop laughing at how truly terrible it was! I would have been devastated myself - it was jaw-droppingly awful.

I was quite sad that I didn’t get the M&S a/c in 2024 and also 2025 as I didn’t rate the contents. I loved them in previous years.

On a related note: Last year’s M&S summer bag was so good that I bought two. Did I miss this summer’s or was it so poor it didn’t register with me?

Pretty sure there was one @IlovePond but cannot remember what was in it.
a quick google