Beauty advent calendar chat and spoilers Thread 6 🎄🌲🤶🎅❄️🎁☃️⛄️✨🍭🍬

[IlovePond]

Welcome to Thread 6 🥳

A huge thank you to @OvaHere, @JoRaRaRa and @Thelifeofawife
for the previous threads, and to everyone who had been sharing spoilers, information. links, bargains, discount codes and enabling each other over the first 5 threads. ❤️

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.

Disclaimer/Pathetic excuse from Pond!

Apologies in advance for any mistakes or broken links, which are down to me and not the previous authors!

Thread 5 is almost full so I have done this very quickly, mostly just adding to the good work that has gone before!

🎁 Available Now:

Boots launch 01/09 for waitlist then 2/09 for general sale
www.boots.com/christmas/advent-calendars/advent-calendar-waiting-list
Luxe £150
beauty-detective.com/boots-beauty-advent-calendar-2026/
Scent £90
beauty-detective.com/boots-12-days-of-scent-advent-calendar-2026/
Skin £70
beauty-detective.com/boots-24-days-of-skin-advent-calendar-2026/

Liberty – £285 (Beauty Drop members receive £25 off). Full contents revealed. Beauty Drop member pre order has closed and those advents are being dispatched. The advent will go on general sale soon (BD members still qualify for the discount during the general sale)
www.libertylondon.com/uk/features/beauty/beauty-advent-calendar#
Unboxing
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 – £250. Available on pre-sale via the app for MyJL members.
^https://beauty-detective.com/john-lewis-beauty-advent-calendar-2026/^

Harrods Beauty Advent Calendar – £270. Now on sale online and in-store
^https://www.harrods.com/en-gb/p/harrods-of-london-the-harrods-beauty-advent-calendar-2026-000000000000284475^

Harrods 12 Days of Hair & Body – £99. Now on sale online and in-store
^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 – £225. Pre-sale sold out. Went on sale in-store 1/9.
^https://beauty-detective.com/harrods-fragrance-advent-calendar-2026/^

Vogue Festive Calendar – £355. Available to pre-order
^https://shop.vogue.co.uk/products/vogue-festive-calendar-2026^

Fortnum & Mason Beauty Advent Calendar - £275. Available now
^https://www.fortnumandmason.com/fortnums-beauty-advent-calendar-2026^

Fenwick 25 day beauty advent calendar - £250. Available now
https://fenwick.co.uk/products/fenwick-fenwick-beauty-25-day-advent-calendar-2026

Anthropologie 24 Day Beauty Advent Calendar – £98. Available now
^https://www.anthropologie.com/en-gb/shop/24-days-of-beauty-advent-calendar5^

The Fragrance Shop - Available for pre-order £120 members, £150 non-members
Women's Advent Calendar
^https://www.thefragranceshop.co.uk/the-fragrance-shop/the-fragrance-shop/gift-box-advent/p/76306^
Men's Advent Calendar ^https://www.thefragranceshop.co.uk/the-fragrance-shop/the-fragrance-shop/gift-box-advent/p/76307^

Selfridges
Beauty & Fragrance £250. Went on sale 1/9, but appears to be ‘sold out’ at present.

^https://beauty-detective.com/selfridges-beauty-advent-calendar-2026/^

Elle £197 or £187 if you joined the waitlist
^https://beauty-detective.com/elle-advent-calendar-2026/^

LookFantastic Beauty. Available for pre-order:

https://www.lookfantastic.com/p/beauty-box/the-beauty-advent-calendar-worth-over-665/17691363/

LookFantastic Fragrance. Available for pre-order:

https://www.lookfantastic.com/p/beauty-box/the-fragrance-advent-calendar-worth-over-530/17691405/

Glossybox. £90 or £75 for subscribers. Code: KAREN5 may give £5 off the £90. Available now:

https://www.glossybox.co.uk/p/beauty-box/glossybox-2026-advent-calendar-worth-over-645/17691528/

OK Beauty Box advent/Hannah Martin. Available now £109:

https://www.okbeautybox.co.uk/products/the-ok-beauty-box-advent-calendar?srsltid=AfmBOoppTH5x1vrf3PT8oCWpKiUj111T5PdA8IBPKCjA9SYOpugUFCBJ

⏳ Coming Soon / Waitlists
Cult Beauty £245 - £20 gift voucher back when buying at launch 03/09 early access.
^https://www.cultbeauty.co.uk/c/advent-calendar/^

Harvey Nichols
Due to the recent takeover, it’s unclear if these a/cs are still going ahead for 2026. Details TBC.
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 £99 - appeared briefly for sale 1/9 online but this seems to have been a glitch.
^https://beauty-detective.com/john-lewis-fragrance-advent-calendar-2026/^

Space NK £275
^https://www.spacenk.com/uk/gifts/beauty-advent-calendars/beauty-advent-calendar-MUK200063764.html^
Unboxing video

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

Fragrance - current thinking is that this will cost £225 and launch around 30/9-1/10
^https://beauty-detective.com/selfridges-fragrance-advent-calendar-2026/^

Next £150 launching 3/9:

^https://beauty-detective.com/next-beauty-advent-calendar-2026^/

Debenhams £120
^https://www.debenhams.com/pages/beauty-advent-calendar^

PURESEOUL £140 (first year they are doing an advent)
beauty-detective.com/pureseoul-advent-calendar-2026/

Jo Malone Waitlist:

www.jomalone.co.uk/advent-calendar-signup?

Jo Loves Waitlist:

https://www.joloves.com/pages/a-jo-loves-advent-calendar?

💄 More Calendars & Spoilers
Rather than making the opening post a mile long, here's a brilliant roundup of lots more advent calendars and the latest spoilers, including Charlotte Tilbury, 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^/ 👈

I suggest we all buy a BAC in the sale in December, to open in January and get us all through the January blues!

Thanks for this! That is fairly late but also super reasonable given how crazy early they are this year. I could be tempted!

@WhiskAverse I have no idea how I’m going to wait ‘til 1st December! I’m hoping to focus on using up half-empty products and travel sizes etc, especially as there are some things I’ll be looking out for during the Black Friday sales. It does feel unrealistic that I’ll be able to resist opening them for three months when I’m so excited about them being delivered!

not silly at all …think its helping everyone’s mental health …but not our bank balances 😂

yes after the early august rush i know i’m going to have a second wave of fomo in october …so perfect really

So I was obvs very fortunate my HFAC arrived today . I’ve sniffed them all and I cannot do the Jeroboam . It’s smells of incense and a love in in a tent 🥴. I’ve looked on Vinted and they are on there on offer between 30-82 pounds ! That’s quite a price difference . And I bet it’s long lasting but just NO . I just can’t be arsed to sell it . I buy off Vinted but I don’t have will to sell . I’m wondering if it could be layered to take the edge off 😂

Yeah, I honestly don’t think I’ll make it to December! I loved having one in Jan this year so I think I’ll open CB when I get it and save SNK / SNKFAC for the misery of January!

I love the Jeroboam. It's the one I'm most excited about. I don't know if to buy a backup whilst the prices are cheap. What are your thoughts on the memo and the MFK?

I also wondered if anyone else who has it has thought it weird no top on the MFK old velvet ?
what I will add is what they offer in value they spare on presentation . The bottles themselves are lovely but Harrods kept the budget down on boxes and no tissue . Very flimsy .

Selfridges is going to be very interesting

@JoRaRaRa it’s a good job we are all different 🙂 yes Defo get the 30 pound one if you love it . MFK is ok but I liked the Satin oud more I have that in an oil and am grieving its final drops 😂 . I like the memo after an hour .

@OvaHere you nailed it for me , you recommended Brompton Immortals and you are spot on .🫶🏼

I love that one from last year's Harrods. Can't wait to try the Extrait. I hope it comes tomorrow.

Stock info re Harrods FAC, they have stock in Edinburgh H beauty. They also do Blue Light card, which I didn't know they did, so with the £5 I had from my recycling, it came to £197.50! Chuffed to bits!

I’m in the same boat, patiently waiting but getting slightly stressed because I’m going away next week

I’m hoping it doesn’t get cancelled. I ordered before 8am on release day and subscribed the day before (got a dreadful mystery box because the August box was sold out) plus an ok September box. Note to self, don’t subscribe on 31st 🙄) and am waiting to cancel.

That’s great…if only I’d known before ordering, so annoying! Must remember for future purchases.

I'm resisting for now. I decided a while ago that I wasn't doing backups anymore. I'm excited to try them all out properly. The OG Brompton immortals is gorgeous, so I'm definitely excited for the extrait version 🥰

What ! What happened ? Are you poorly do we need to send help ? Have you been kidnapped!
tap twice for help 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Wow it’s been busy on here today - just catching up!

I ended up contacting DPD to reschedule my Harrods calendars in case DH wasn’t around. The earliest I could do is Monday, so felt quite disappointed this morning knowing you were all getting yours and I had to wait. Then it turned out that DH was at home today at the time they originally said they would deliver, so I was even more disappointed 😔
I arrived home after another long day in work, and nearly tripped over 3 big boxes from Harrods! So alls well that ends well, but what’s the point in allowing people to change their delivery if they are still going to try to deliver on the original date/time.
Anyway, I’m out tonight and tomorrow night, but excited to crack these open on Saturday morning 😃

No sign of my CB BACs though.

🤣 I ran out of space, I'm in need of a bigger house 🤣

Yep, methinks THG are having issues. Its the same company as for CB who have finally processed my 2 orders and en route.

@Thelifeofawife I'm so glad you got your Harrods orders 🥰

Im very annoyed. Despite DPD confirming that they would deliver my Harrods FAC to my former neighbours I got a message to say that they’d delivered it to my old address. The new people haven’t moved in properly yet so I’ve no idea who’s got my advent calendar 😡😡😡. My neighbours are going round in the morning to try to retrieve it.

Yay! Just had confirmation that DDs CB BAC with is with Royal Mail. She usually gets Glossybox but the CBAFF code was too good to ignore. Other DD is going to Sephoria next month so this should even things out.

Look Fantastic have only just dispatched a couple of items that I ordered at the weekend. Normally they dispatch on the day of order, so I think they’re having some warehouse issues and/or lots of orders to deal with.