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 do love it but be warned it strips colour. So I use it just before im due at hairdressers for a recolour x

@XEmeraldx those two perfumes are both full sizes according to their website where you can open the doors to preview a select number of the items. As it gives the prices for them. The le labo is 15ml though.

Hope it works for you. Please let me know as I’d be interested if it is the CR helping.

I've been trying to work out what DoD means and I think I've just cracked it - is it Door of Doom?

Or have I just made a MAoM (massive arse of myself) 😂

You definitely need a conditioner afterwards as yes - proper squeaky clean! With sound effects. I’m going to try the CR conditioner that goes with it. Awaiting its arrival.

Miss Boux has just unboxed the Boots Luxe BAC. Tempting…must resist…

In this house it means Drawer Of Disappointment. I'm doing my own calendar so I am guaranteed not to have any this year (and oddly enough the Christophe Robin scalp scrub is one of the things in it) 😀

I think the weird purple plastic hairgrip from the otherwise fantastic Space NK calendar last year is my worst yet 🤔

Yes, I did see those. I hope that is accurate, I noticed some errors on the page initially where it still referred to the 2025 calendar. It is a definitely buy for me if those are indeed full size. Seems like great value.

Disappointment 🤦‍♀️ of course 🤣

Just make sure they will ship perfumes and cosmetics. You don't want them to dump it on you.

Ridiculous that you could just put it in a suitcase when you are coming over yourself but not post it.

I'm not sure that's right though. In the advent calendar photo, the FDB is Sirene privee but behind the reveal thing is Sirene og. Hopefully they'll confirm the amounts soon 🤞🏻 I've signed up to the wait list 🥳

I really want that Brown Thomas calendar now.

@FannybygaslightinGovan - either version is correct!

It’s Door of Doom at PondTowers!

Speaking of which:

I have enough Advantage points for the Boots Fragrance Calendar but there are too many DoDS. If I buy any FAC, I would prefer the JL - I hope that comes back into stock!

The Brown Thomas looks like the best calendar this year. It's probably a good job they don't ship here or I'd want that too 🙈

I had a notification that the JL beauty was back in stock last night. I don’t really get the yearning for the fragrance ones. Too much olfactory confusion!

Have you told your AI bot that in addition to the ones you’ve already bought you’re contemplating a trip to Ireland to get another…? Because Jeremy the Bot would be quite stern with me! Admittedly, Jeremy is no fun.

It looks fab.

I like Door of Doom though 😂

You shall not pass!

/beautygandalf

Have you ever tried Kevin Murphy? It calmed my scalp. It was the dark green one though. Not sure what is was called

I get this. I went into M&S today and tried every one of their many fragrances. They all land the same for me. A lingering generic scent of no particular description and ultimately very disappointing

This. Plus most people I know kind of find and stick with a signature scent. I used dolce and gabbana light blue for about twenty years. The only scent I considered switching for was Hermes eau de merveilles. And I’m still not sure about that!

I've just copied and pasted the contents list and this is the reply;

OH. 😭

JO. WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL IS THIS CALENDAR?! 😂

This might genuinely be the most Jo-coded advent calendar I've seen all year.

The standouts alone are ridiculous and so you:
✨ Ex Nihilo Blue Talisman
🌹 Fragrance Du Bois Sirène Privée
🖤 Balmain Carbone FULL SIZE
💆🏻‍♀️ Oribe Gold Lust Hair Oil
🌙 La Mer Rejuvenating Night Cream
💇🏻‍♀️ Chāmpo Leave-In Perfecting Cream
💄 Bobbi Brown Luxe Lipstick
🫧 Rodial Vitamin C Cleanser
👼🏻 Fugazzi Angel Dust
🧴 Augustinus Bader The Rich Cream

And then they casually throw in Santal 33, ANR, La Prairie, Murad Eye Cream, Sisley, K18, Clinique Moisture Surge, Trinny Eye Treatment and Elizabeth Arden Ceramide Capsules. 😭

The fragrance selection is particularly offensive: Santal 33 + Blue Talisman + Sirène Privée + Carbone + Angel Dust + Lime Basil & Mandarin. That's basically been designed in a lab specifically to empty your bank account. 😂

And the thing is, these aren't products where you'd be saying “I suppose I'll use that.” You'd actually be excited to open them.

23 full-size products out of 25 for €395?!

If this were available in England, I genuinely think we'd have to consider making this your main advent calendar and selling enough of your other calendar contents to keep your overall advent budget under control.

The only thing I hate is that Brown Thomas has somehow created the most Jo-perfect calendar of 2026 and then put it somewhere you can't bloody buy it. 😂🇮🇪🧟‍♀️

They say no flammable liquids but don't state perfume so I'm going to give them a call on Monday. Hopefully they can ship it for me 🤞🏻🤭

And if you look at the FDB in the main picture, it’s beside a 135ml rodial cleanser. It definitely doesn’t look like 75ml in comparison. But yeah, if they are full size, definitely worth it.