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^/ 👈

@MrsBnow12 are you in the Brown Thomas delivery area or have you determined a reliable forwarding service? If a forwarding service, do you mind me asking who you're using? The calendar looks amazing. Unfortunately, reviews on forwarding services are concerning.

Maybe it's like with drug addicts - the first hit is the best and then you are forever chasing the high...

Loved this advent. I sold the milk primer, Sunday riley and kate somerville but have used (or still using) everything else.

😂😂😂 I’m missing the dopamine too!

I just want to feel a good euphoric hit when there’s something new and fabulous to purchase, but unfortunately it’s all been a bit of a damp squib this year 🥱
I loved the Violette SPF and love Sisley night masks.

I am not in the delivery area but am very fortunate and have a friend who will act as the forwarding service for me. I am repaying them by shipping their Harrods Fragrance advent over.

I ran the code on LotDate and it comes up as January 2021 manufacture date.

You can see by my checking history that SR codes also appear to be very old, but was there talk of SR recycling their lot codes?

I'll be happily using my Chantecaille cheek gelee for the rest of my life, a drop at a time!

I wonder if we need a subsidiary category for newcomers that aren’t - gosh, I had the word and it has immediately escaped me when writing this. This is my first year buying BACs and I am so excited, so, it kinda sucks a little bit to see that this year’s offerings aren’t good. I’m really chuffed with the calendars I’ve bought.

I wouldn't worry to be honest.

A good calendar for me includes lots of new products I haven't tried yet so thats very subjective. I speak for myself (and probably others here) that it gets harder and harder to find new products because I buy so much!

It’s my all time favourite AC product, too. I use it several times a week, and still have half or so of the tube left.

I think a few of us on here are a bit jaded and comparing to previous years..if you are new it all you will probably still get a lot of enjoyment out of it.

I think there's still quite a bit of excitement around them. I mean, we've all been discussing them on these threads since like July time. The good thing is, we're all different and something one of us doesn't like, someone else would absolutely love. I'm sure you will love yours and be excited when it gets to December 🥰 you'll be jumping out of bed to go open the next door 💃🏻

I don't think the SpaceNK advent has changed that much although the LE lipstick and the Chantecaille blush were highlights that year. I didn't buy the 2024 one but at the time it was my first year discovering such delights existed so I remember drooling over it a lot.

Looking at it now with 2026 eyes I feel largely the same about that one as this year's offering. It's nice, the value is there but I'm not wowed because between edits, samples, other advents and the Liberty Beauty Drop none of those brands are new and exciting to me now.

I think SpaceNK could have tried a bit harder with the curation this year as it's lacking a bit of glam in favour of the perfunctory but the main problem is more of a me thing. I spent decades not having nice things due to the limitations of a young family, then they all grew up and now I have lots of nice things for me but it's not as exciting now a few years later.

That's a lot of words to say I don't think you can recapture that initial thrill of a very posh BAC. 😂

@DidILeaveTheGasOn you’ve picked some really lovely things. Your mint’d shopping was quite inspiring 😊 I’m definitely getting 1 or 2 when I make my mind up, I’m just taking too long to decide so need to stop dithering.

@TreesinthePark @LagoLady Oh I ended up with 2 of these and sold them as I didn’t think I’d use them - kind of regretting it now I’ve seen the love it’s getting.

@OvaHere Thanks for the LF heads up. I’ve been waiting for a discount. Do we think a better one will come along? I do have £15 in points too so would bring it to under £100 but I’d rather not waste my points if there’s likely to be further discounts

Oh yes, that is lovely! I’m still using it, it’s such a pretty natural colour. 😍

Not sure. They are dispatching them from next week I think so probably a last push for orders. It might be reduced again in a few weeks if not sold out but it's hard to tell.

I think that’s it, it’s not as exciting when you’ve tried a lot of the products. I started having them back in the early Liberty years. I don’t think they were better as such, just new and exciting. It’s all subjective though, everyone loves different things. I’d just like that feeling of the new discovery again, it’s like your first love.
Anyone new to it, enjoy your calendars…it’s a lovely feeling.

What shade was the cheek gelee? I'm now interested in a product that I wasnt aware of until moments ago!

I went looking for one on Vinted a couple of months ago (not the shade from the advent) and there was a ton on there clearly from the SNK 2024 advent but still priced around £20 + . It's almost 2 years since that advent!

I think there’s something in this. I got beauty advents when they first came out then didn’t bother for a number of years, mainly because after years of experimenting I’d found the products that work well for me. Last year I got my first Liberty beauty advent as a gift and loved it because most of the products were new to me.

I’ve loved trying all the products but I’ve discovered that I personally haven’t been missing out and that some of the new products out nowadays are ridiculously expensive but don’t give me any better results. First thing that comes to mind is the AB eye cream from it that I’ve been using religiously!

And reading posts about expensive products with the £5 price labels on them makes you think too.

I still look at all of the calendars each year and work out the value of the things that I’d really want to try; it’s never anywhere near the cost of the calendar though and I’d rather spend the money on things I really want. I don’t sell stuff as I’ve done this in the past (with non beauty stuff) and it’s not worth my time or energy so it all goes to charity/ family now.

@keepincool - I think all the companies recycle their codes every ten years.

I checked the codes of loads of my products after MissBoux’s expose of Next across two checking sites and my findings made grim reading and led to a big cull of my stash.

I love the idea of beauty advent calendars and do get very excited about them.

However, a few things have taken the edge off a bit for me this year:

Out of date/damaged/old stock in Liberty. Plus the insult to customers in sending out replacements with £5 stickers on. (Got to be honest, I am not getting past this, so once I have spent my BD money, I will be done with Liberty once and for all 😿)

All the drip-feeding - I have no problem with calendars not being released until later in the year, but please just tell us the contents at the same time as I find the ‘hints’ annoying. For example, the Tidal Glow a/c could be the best calendar ever but I am so over it already 😹

The release ‘mistake’ - I am miffed that the JLFAC dropped on 1/9 instead of 21/9, with not a word of explanation from JL!

Having said all that:

I think SNK is visually impressive.
Sephora Favourites is - for me - better than last year’s
Elle looks lovely
Selfridges - I like a lot of what is in this year’s a/c - again - for me - it’s better than 2025’s
Harrods’ BAC is much, much better - imo - than last year’s. If money was no object, I would already have bought this one!

There's definitely a BAC fatigue aspect for those of us doing this a while who also probably get a lot of edits throughout the year. Selfridges was of no interest to me as I've pretty much experienced them all before through various sources. Maybe that's why the liberty men's one was one of the best for me personally this year - gave me a chance to try some new things.
Maybe I need a completely new type of advent calendar to get in to - food, socks etc? I'd be quite partial to a cheese one....

It would help if the calendars had more new release products in. Often there’s a good serum but it’s one that came out a couple of years ago so lots of people will have already tried it. In the meantime that same brand will have brought out several new products, so put those in instead.