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^/ 👈

@RoseTeaLady Please let us know what Lumene say. I’ve got that calendar waiting for October too. Again I only paid approx £40 for it but it’s not very good if I need to throw out half of it.

Though @SheilaFentiman’s post is reassuring so fingers crossed 🤞

The PDM fragrance calendar is available for pre-order

https://beauty-detective.com/parfums-de-marly-advent-calendar-2026/

I loved the Parfums de Marly advent last year but will
skip this year as still have most of my Valaya from
last years Harrods

This doesn't wow me like it did last year. That said, if it does go in the sale at Selfridges like it did last year, I might buy it. Last year I bought at full price and then went in a right Grinch mood when selfridges reduced it 🤣 I won't be doing that again. I do like Valaya but I wish it was one of the ones I didn't have a fs of, like Delina la rosee, meliora or athenais (but that's the new one so would've been unlikely).

I think I prefer the penhaligon's though this year so I'll look out for that one being reduced.

Not buying this years PDM. I dont think ive opened the Valaya from last years Harrods AC🫣

Also worth keeping an eye on the PDM website as I ordered from them and paid full price but got some great freebies included. Just looked and the freebies were a 180g candle and 2 x 10mls, I ordered on 22 November so must have been a BF offer.
Comparing the two advents, last year we had a small candle and extra 5ml

@RoseTeaLady this is what Lumene say about dates on their site:

That is one BS advent if tou compare it with the one from last year

This is my aim, but I ALWAYS love the good stuff and all the bits I‘m happy to get rid of only raise about £25!

@SheilaFentiman That’s very reassuring. Thanks. I’ve had another sniff of the cleanser and I wonder if it’s the oat milk that I’m smelling? I used the shampoo earlier in the year and it was fab.

@Thelifeofawife Will do. I really like them as a brand.

I’ve spent quite a bit on Vinted (£90) for products from the Space NK advent - two Votary serums, K18 Heat protectant, Phlur Missing Person and Ole Henrikson lip treatment. I am super happy with that. But, bizarrely, as I’ve realised how much I’ve spent, I’ve thought, ‘well, I might as well buy the calendar’. My brain is on crack.

I’ve bought it and am thrilled . I love most of the calendar and the couple of bits that aren’t my taste I’ll give to friends . The box is gorgeous aswell , a decorative item or storage once finished with .

I was sure I was going to buy this, but the contents are not as good as last year and the cost is up. I don't want a keyring in a £300+ calendar thanks PDM!

I managed to pick up the Medik8 cream and Sunday Riley serum from the CB advent for £50 (+ fees, shipping, etc). Thankfully that put me right off the advent 😮‍💨

I also bought the bag the Liberty advent came in. I am going to use it as a Santa overflow sack for my DC. It’s really pretty.

Love that @user593.

That reminds me. Is there anywhere I could buy one or two space NK or Sephora bags, like you’d get if you shopped at the stores? Someone on Reddit mentioned shopping their stash and putting their ‘haul’ into a nice shopping bag and I thought that sounded great, like a fun experiment to see how easily pleased my inner shopping gremlin is. If it works I’d be made up.

I saw the JL BAC in store today but wasn't tempted. Its a poor imitation of last year's and the previouses. Particularly the fragrance offering is a lot poorer. For me to see it literally in front of my nose but walk away empty handed is a sure sign it has ( imo) gone downhill.

Suprise win for me this year was the fenwick.

I have a large bag that needs a home. Happy to send it you for postage only, DM me.

Gosh you little legend, will do!

Hi everyone,

I’ve been lurking here for a little while and finally decided to sign up because I wanted to talk about Niche Beauty. I’ve literally seen no discussion on their advent calendars anywhere. I realise they are a little pricey compared to most but I absolutely could not resist the gorgeous burgundy case that came with the luxury version.

Has no one here been tempted with them? The price was a bit less of a sting when I discovered I’d been given two of days 22 and 25! I suppose the silk baggy format helped with that - would be harder to miss too much product in a cardboard drawer!

I ended up with two Suzanne Kaufmann Eye Rescue Serums (£98) and two Royal Fern PN Boosting Serums (£180)! Retail price on the extras alone is more than half the cost of the calendar.

Welcome @Laylora

MaryBD has both the Classic and the Luxury Niche calendars on her site, but at £330/£450, they are definitely on the pricey side (accidental double drawers notwithstanding- lucky you!)

Agree that’s a lovely case with the Luxury one though!

Hi,

I do like them. I came very close to buying last year's. They launched a bit late in the day when I'd committed to others and the price is a bit high for a last minute 'oh just one more'. 😂I'm glad you love yours and well done on the bonus items.

I have not caved and ordered any more advent calendars yet (have Harrods BAC and Harrods fragrance AC) but have got the SR serum from CB, the Foreo device (that I don’t even know that I need but it was a bargain) and Jo Loves candle from JL, and the SR Good Genes from SNK calendar from Vinted, so I am still spending money!

Do we think the Fenwick calendar is going to come back? They seem to be taking forever sorting the ingredients list, or whatever the issue was 🥺

Same !! Need to get an eye out first any Selfridges reductions.

I did manage to get some freebies on the website, or I should say that Santa did 🤭 If I'm going to get one, I'd like the Penhaligon's but we'll see. I still plan to buy the sfac and the BT which has a lot fragrances in, so I'm not going to be in need.

That said, if anyone wants to sell me the baroness one from the penhaligon's, pm me 🙏🏻

PDM are good for freebies I'll give them that. Now whether to wait until black friday and risk it selling out is the question. I'm going to be in london this week and wasn't planning to go to covent garden but now I've seen this has been released I could... could be a bit tempted. Last time I got a few freebies including a lovely perfume tile. Then again the freebies on the website may be better. I like Valaya, would have preferred Oriana but you can't have everything. Then again, they were 1/3 off in selfridges BF sale and I'd be kicking myself for not waiting if that happens again.