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^/ 👈

https://www.christopherobin.co.uk/p/cleansing-purifying-scrub-with-sea-salt-75ml/14403076/

This is the one (and it's bluey green, so could be either 🤔😳). I got a new one on Vinted for about 8 quid.

@Fffreeeeezing also hearing little advent calendar voices! Got Elle,Cult Beauty and Avant on top of the wardrobe, they are quite loud up there…

It went in and out of stock several times throughout September and October, so it's hard to predict what will happen.

I pre-ordered on 23/8 and the confirmation e-mail states delivery will be from 14/9. I would be far happier if they took payment at point of dispatch rather than at pre-order. They must be making a nice amount of interest with our money.

It’s bizarre- I pre-ordered on 20th August and am due delivery from 10th September onwards.
Maybe there’s a lesson here for next year but I doubt I’ll remember! What a faff.

I cancelled my Harrods BAC preorder from Aug 10th two days ago after delivery was showing from 10th Sept, I made a new order and now have the BAC in my hands. It's no way to treat customers. Won't bother with pre ordering next time.

Has Harrods’ ever been reduced at a later date?

Ooh Liberty has arrived and it’s sooo nice! Love the box design although they’ve got one of the numbers in the wrong place so it’s on the back of the drawer! I’ve messaged them
as for the amount I’ve paid I’d expect it to be perfect. No leaking reome and realised the DS is a different one to last year so tried that and like it. Overall the perfume is a surprising success this year with only 2 on Vinted ( still debating bibbi Vanilla, I can’t remember whether I liked it and so many sticks I’m not sure which it is! I don’t like vanilla but I’m going to try it before I sell it I think. I also bought ds the look Fantastic Grooming box, I didn’t subscribe as it was only a saving of £5 and I didn’t want anything in the box/ the faff of cancelling! That is my advent buying complete ( although now v interested in the Lola at Coat Check after reading the description/ I love rose!

They usually have a rewards weekend either Sep or early Oct which is 10% off. Last year the two beauty BACs were still on sale and were included. I think this weekend is what sold them out last year.

Edit - Just checked my orders and I bought the BAC during the 10% weekend last year which was Sep 13th. So if they do it again and the BAC is eligible it might be soon and that might sell the BAC out online.

Thank you @OvaHereFingers crossed! I’m willing to risk the wait

@Thelifeofawife i enjoyed my discounted Lumene for my birthday month earlier this year.

Sculpted by Aimee is sold out online, will be some in stores according to insta!

You can guarantee that Harrods will throw some chaos into the AC process at some point. 🙄

I’ve had the Christopher Robin scrub (had to check that name whilst typing as all I thought about was Winnie the Pooh, and that can’t be right)
I find it does strip your hair completely, last time I did it I looked like Worzel (showing my age) afterwards. I think it’s really good if your hair isn’t over processed, feels really fresh and clean, but definitely don’t skip the conditioner.

oh my god …there’s a scent thread ! im there ….

ASOS is what my teen had last year and it was brilliant! Great value for money and all the usual teen favourite brands.

If the Harrods Hair & Beauty AC gets reduced, I think I will get that too. If not, I can live without it.

I managed to buy the PC serum I wanted from the CB advent. I also got the Gisou shampoo & conditioner and The Ordinary Essence. I'm not looking on Vinted now, as I will buy more😂 So I'm off to catch up on some unboxings on YouTube.

Thanks! I'll give it a try!

Loving the thought of a scent thread, as I seem to be quite saturated with skincare. I had little intention of ordering the HFAC, but oops 😬
Does anyone who has any of the Montale fragrances think they all smell similar? I took a quick sniff of the one in the HBAC and I swear it smells like the last one they had in their calendar, except it’s a different name.

I only had a quick sniff but yes I thought the same. I like the other one so I guess it means I'll like this one too.

Gosh that was quick with the sculpted by Amy. I ordered yesterday and was in two minds about waiting until I’m back off holiday but I’m soo glad I didn’t.

@Beautyfox looking forward to hearing what you think of it!

It did look nice. I took a look at it but I only really wanted the burgundy mascara so I backed off to save myself. 😂

Mine arrived Friday! It was my first BAC last year. I really loved it. I get my family to check the contents are all okay as I don't like spoiling the surprise, so it's tucked away now so I don't get tempted!
I've bought CB this year too, and comparing the box quality, not contents, JL is way better quality. Enjoy opening it 😊

I think im going to get the Selfridges one and normally get M&S too. Would that be crazy to have both?! Ive had john lewis and Next in the past but I'm sure I've never spent £250 on a calendar before so trying to justify it. Somebody please enable me 🤣

Apologies everyone for starting new thread too early…here’s a link to new thread and next time I’ll try to be fashionably late, not unfashionably early 😁
Only posting here as I may fall asleep and miss the end.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5575020-beauty-advent-calendar-chat-and-spoilers-thread-7