Beauty advent calendar chat and spoilers thread 7 🌸⛄️🌸❄️🎀🎁🎄❄️🧣

[SoloCat]

Welcome to Thread 7 🥳
A huge thank you to @ilovepond @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 6 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.

🎁 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

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^/ 👈

You're the me of last year 🤣 just ordering them all 💁🏻‍♀️ It'll be you this year that has a wall like the Selfridges bac display 😍🤣

I'm trying to be good this year. I have Harrods FAC and BAC, plus CB AC if it ever arrives. But I'm hoping to get my giddy lil mitts on the Selfridges FAC and on the BT BAC 🤞🏻And I shall stop at 5. Although I'm going to the Harrods carnival so I might buy the Hair and Body one there if the gwp is any good 🤔

I bought it but haven't been notified of a recall. Speaking of which do we think the liberty reome broth will be recalled as a PP said liberty CS had said it was old stock. I used it back in 2024 when it was in a kit and it felt different this time.

CB are giving double points when you buy the AC. It’s equivalent to the £20 voucher they were offering on launch but maybe points are easier to spend. However, I am in a strop that I missed the discount code for CBAC so unless that repeats I will not be buying it out of principle. Although if anyone knows of any codes that work please let me know because then I’m all theirs.

@JoRaRaRa I’m actually scared of the tower of parcels that will be waiting for me when I get back off holiday. I’m also aware that some I’ve ordered haven’t been delivered.
I think it might be a good idea to keep ordering in blissful ignorance whilst I’m away because my dream would be a bac display wall! 😂🙈

This is from the email I hit, there is no product recall or issue with the products themselves.

Sculpted By Aimee sold out straight away…

Anyone buying on double points check the points status when it's in the basket.

I put one in my basket and it still says 245 points rather than 490 points.

I had this with them a few weeks back when they did double points. They didn't add at the basket, I didn't notice then had to spend a week fighting CS bots to get the extra points added.

Someone on reddit made a spreadsheet comparing Harrods, Cult Beauty, Space NK, Vogue, Boots Luxe and Selfridges BACs. There's a products page that lists all the products in each BAC which is really useful. The spreadsheet has scoring based on product size, price, value to them personally and so on. It is AMAZING.

Beauty Advent Calendars comparison and scoring

Thank you for the new thread @SoloCat 😍

After joining the thread last year and purchasing a zillion 2025 BACs, this year I've only ordered one - the F&M BAC. I may get a home fragrance one too, hopefully Harrods if it isn't too expensive. I'm feeling very proud of my restraint so far 😇

Thank you @SoloCat

I think that Space NK will go live tomorrow morning

I noticed yesterday they had the listing up under New In. So probably tomorrow or Tuesday - they tend to launch a lot of their specials on a Tuesday. I've noticed this because I'm usually office based on that day so it annoys me.

Are you planning on buying the spacenk? I can't decide if to get it. I shouldn't really, I only actually want the medik8 serum from it, I wouldn't mind the ab body cream and the hourglass blush. I should ignore it but I did also enjoy selling stuff last year.

Thank you @SoloCat
I hope SNK drops tomorrow, it’s one of my 3 calendars for this year, alongside Harrods and Boots Luxe. Feeling very happy and content with this choice 🎁

I'm planning my hardest not to. The serums are a nice to have but it doesn't wow me. If they were to reduce or offer double points in a few weeks I might.

I'm more likely to cave and buy Sephora when it launches this week. The MBM palette and candle are calling my name.

Really I have no business getting either. 😄

Is anyone getting the Penhaligons A/ C . I love it but am also wanting Diptique and the Harrods HF advent . I wish Diptique would hurry up with their reveals so I can have a think . I may end up buying them all and have already got Liberty and Anthropology on the way . This is not a cheap thread to have found .

Do we have a confirmed content list for Sephora yet? I feel like I need to proper analyse it before I can make a decision. Though I'm serious about getting the BT one so really I should just focus on that.

I'd love to get the penhaligon's, but it's very expensive and I do actually have quite a few of the fragrances already. I'll be watching to see if it goes on sale anywhere.

The list on Beauty Detective is correct as they had the contents listed under the old advent a few weeks back

Do we think SNK and Sephora will be released tomorrow? I can’t make up my mind on what one to get I can’t let myself buy them both although I know I probably will 🤦‍♀️🤣

Think I’ve almost talked myself out of Space NK but unexpectedly drawn to Selfridges. Seem to have gone into magpie mode - just want shiny things!

I can’t find a full spoiler list for Sephora but I’m pretty sure I watched a spoiler video a while back.
what are people’s thoughts on CB, Sephora and SNk being reduced or offered with GWP’s in a few weeks?

I have soo many that it’s fine if I miss out but there’s something in each one I would love to try so if there was a discount then I’m in but otherwise I think I will let them pass by.

I think that may happen with Cult only, SNK and Sephora generally sell out and they manage to make sure the advent isn’t included with any gwp

@hattie43 - have you found a list of contents and sizes for Penhaligons? I can only find pics even on their website

I was going to get SNK but now I think I might just wait for brown Thomas and call it a day. Not sure if I’ll withstand buying SNK though if it does launch tomorrow.

The bubble bath, many lip products and the lash curler and Refy mascara are putting me off a bit. Along with the two cleansers, they don’t do it for me. Sunday Riley and medik8 doing the heavy lifting.

do we know if SNK will do a fragrance advent calendar this year?

No I can't find a spoiler list either. The only one I can find on the BD website is just first spoilers not a full list.

I don't think any will be reduced in the next few weeks. Some gwps may pop up later in the season, but by then we'll have all bought the acs we want and have moved onto edits 🤣

I am being noble and talking myself out of buying another calendar as I've just paid for my place at a really popular author/reader event in May 2028. As I clicked 'pay' I did genuinely find myself thinking 'this might be a disaster and I could just have another AC instead'. Especially as it's not until the year after next!

Instead I'm hoping for either a massive discount on one I'd like or that Liberty do a winter scent edit which I can spend my BD funds on. Or both.