Beauty advent calendars thread 8 for spoilers, offers and stock updates 🎅❄️🤶☃️🎄⛄️🌲✨

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Welcome to Thread 8 🥳

A huge thank you to @OvaHere, @JoRaRaRa and @Thelifeofawife, @solocat

for the previous threads, and to everyone who has been sharing spoilers, information. links, bargains, discount codes and enabling each other over the first 7 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:
www.boots.com/christmas/advent-calendars/advent-calendar-waiting-list
Luxe £150
beauty-detective.com/boots-beauty-advent-calendar-2026/
Fragrance £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). Now on 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 but appears to be completely sold out:
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. Withdrawn due to problems with the ingredients list. When/if it will return is unknown:
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. On sale 1/9:
https://beauty-detective.com/selfridges-beauty-advent-calendar-2026/

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/

Elle £197 or £187 if you joined the waitlist or with MissBoux’s code available on her unboxing video:

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. The calendar is either out of stock or withdrawn. It MAY reappear 21/9, (its original release date):

https://beauty-detective.com/john-lewis-fragrance-advent-calendar-2026/

Space NK £275 - available now in-store and online:

https://www.spacenk.com/uk/gifts/beauty-advent-calendars/beauty-advent-calendar-MUK200063764.html

Oh My Cream £195 with 20% off for new customers with code: WELCOME20:

https://ohmycream.co.uk//products/advent-calendar-lrnce-oh-my-cream?

YESSTYLE: $164.99 5% off with code: PAULAYES

Early access: 29/9 3am GMT
General access: 6/10 3am GMT

https://beautycalendar.com/yesstyle-advent-calendar-2026/

Sephora UK

Sephora Favourites: £235 available for pre order:

https://www.sephora.co.uk/p/sephora-favorites-advent-calendar?

Next £150 available now:
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/

Holland Barrett: £60 - available now:

https://www.hollandandbarrett.com/shop/product/beauty-advent-calendar-6101407249?

Diptyque: £420 - available now:

uk.diptyqueparis.com/en-uk/products/advent-calendar-25-scented-treasures-xm26advent?

Jo Malone: £375 - available now;

https://www.jomalone.co.uk/product/26322/107822/gift-sets/christmas-kist-advent-calendar?

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, and many more as they're announced:
👉 ^https://beauty-detective.com/category/beauty-advent-calendars^/ 👈

The BTSO was sadly not good. Not as bad as the MFK Oud Velvet Mood though. That one was truly bad. A shame because I like Oud Satin Mood and wish they had put that one in.

I still find things sell so much faster on Vinted than eBay. I’ve sold 17 items from my two HFACs in 5 days. I’m fairly new to Vinted, I’ve been on it for 3-4 months, but things I had sat on eBay for months sold within a few days.

I’ve taken note of the Vinted bans and moved a lot of stuff over to Ebay. It’s v refreshing to post the price you want and getting it, without all the crazy offers.

I’m not sure that the less-known brands will sell though, there’s not as many beauty lovers hunting for bargains so I’m mainly using it for higher value items.

Ebay is absolutely dead over here. Almost no one uses it. It also does not let me chose automated calculated shipping. I need a computer for that as it doesnt support a phone. I just gave up with it after an hour.

I've sold on Ebay many years ago but im on vinted thses last 18 months.
I did try Ebay but all changed and fave up halfway through
I have plenty of stiff and have resisted all advents upto now as just cant be mithered selling stuff im not interested in or know I dont like ofwhich theres a lot so not bothered.
Im in uk and only use mobile so maybe Ebay wouldnt be any good anyway if some stuff you need a laptop to sort out 🤷🤔🤪

I've sold a few things on eBay but they can take a while. I sometimes put higher value things on there.

I sold a complete Space NK gwp for £50 a while back which took about 3 days to sell but I did get the full asking price. I didn't put it on Vinted because I knew I'd be inundated with people offering a tenner.

I don't mind offers, even lowish ones on some stuff, but if I have a price in mind for slightly more special stuff and I'm confident of it selling I'm okay with it taking a bit longer.

I’ve just got a permanent Vinted ban 🫣 If anyone here has bought the Murad cream, Sunday Riley tidal or the Anua cream from me yesterday then I apologise but Vinted is not even letting me generate the labels to complete those orders 🙄

Located last night - I'm happy to sell if you'd like it.

I sell loads on there as a pro seller..apx 30 items a week.

Agreed. Ebay all the way. I sold half the perfumes from my Harrods calendar and made the entire cost back, all through Ebay, all easy peasy. Vinted in the other hand have me a 5 day ban for attempting to sell one of them unsealed (it wasnt sealed to begin with!!)

Thats awful, I’m so sorry!

I actually feel quite relieved and happy to just use eBay now 😂 Vinted is increasingly ridiculous. I’m just annoyed that the people who ordered those items aren’t going to get them and I have no way of communicating with them, it won’t let me send them a message or anything. I’d hope Vinted would cancel the orders but it doesn’t look like that’s what’s happened, I feel like they’ll just be left in limbo until it gets past 7 days and it will just appear to them that I haven’t sent the items?

It’s just ludicrous to me that you have a selling platform and then get upset when people sell items and then ban them 🤷‍♀️

It's ridiculous. Have they given you any sort of reason?

Vinted is a pain to sell on with all the lowballers and the non binding offers. Ebay at least you can set a minimum offer price, and offers are binding. I'm actually a little bit pleased its on the way out as I prefer Ebay but they lost a lot of share to Vinted last year.

Just that they think it’s commercial selling. They gave me a temporary ban for that at some point last year, then I had a more recent temporary ban because they thought something was used (it wasn’t), so I suppose it’s the next step to permanently ban me.

I use eBay too. In fact I’ve sold 3 items on eBay in the past 24 hours (2 clothing and 1 beauty).

I have a Vinted account but find it a pain due to all the time wasters constantly sending low ball offers. Can’t be bothered with that.

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

Look fantastic full contents. Think it’s pretty good for £120 and may purchase.

I’ll not miss the low offers. What annoys me most (sorry if anyone does this!) is people who just message an offer, like they just say “10?” All it tells me is they’ve run out of offers to send as they’re constantly lowballing. Or one I got the other day that offered 60% of the listed price, then came back with a tiny bit more and said “best offer take it or leave it”. I left it 😄

EBay have got a lot better as a result of the competition from Vinted, and now have easier listing, simple delivery etc

Any idea what makes them decide it is commercial selling?
I put up 5 unwanted items from my Harrods BAC and have sold 2. I have a few others I don’t think I want and some bits from the Liberty calendar and a few other things, but I am worried if I put them up for sale too they will decide it’s too many items or something.

Speaking of Vinted, I just bought Lola at Coat Check and Burberry rose petal lipstick from the Selfridges calendar for £65, which I'm super happy with. The only remaining thing I want from the Selfridges BAC is the Sol de Janeiro Delicia shower gel, hoping to get that at discount when I remember.

Just got a sample of d'Annam Mango sticky rice and it is so good, must not immediately buy a full bottle for £140. Can someone send me some self-control please...

I’ve no idea. I do sell quite a lot, but also limited myself to only posting a few items per day after the temp ban last year. I think they’re just unpredictable to be honest.

The only tip I maybe have is, if you’re selling something without a box, don’t explicitly state that in the listing. I think that’s what triggered them thinking I was selling a used item, when I was just trying to make the listing really clear.

Just opened my Harrods BAC that arrived a few days ago. It’s more unwhelming that I expected. The box just isn’t as pretty as Liberty.

I’ve got 7 things (more than I expected) to sell. Probably on eBay as I hate the ridiculous offers on Vinted! Also, I don’t think they should list a discount voucher as a product! It’s so niche and useless to the majority of buyers.

Sharing the photo I took when I was in Fortnum yesterday. Pretty in person, but I don’t like it enough to buy.

Ooh thank you @8books, I keep forgetting I've ordered F&M, that looks gorgeous. This must be the only time of year my crap memory is useful!