Beauty advent calendars thread 9 for spoilers, offers and stock updates 🤶☃️🎄💄❄️🎅🏻✨

[26inprogress]

Welcome to Thread 9 🎉
A huge thank you to @OvaHere, @JoRaRaRa and @Thelifeofawife,@ilovepond,@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 8 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^/ 👈

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@BeanNaGealai - the very idea! 😂😂😂. You are a bad influence! To be honest I do really want to reduce my stash. My weakness has been Caroline Hirons kits and they are full size products. Plus I have loads of things from edits, GWPs and previous calendars. I have ended up having to throw out expensive products that have expired. Which is ridiculous. I will get The White Company one this year. And I will definitely be in the market for a beauty calendar next year. I am enjoying showing ChatGPT the details of calendars and reading the critiques and reasons why I should not buy though. It’s quite funny.

that so weird. I wonder…Would there be some sort of dispensation for companies, or arrangement for those organisations with Royal Mail? Us mere mortals at the post office counters probably pose more of a security risk with our little vials than shipping companies. Which is likely why they’re strict. The shipping companies themselves will have the insurance, carry the ‘risk’ , fill out the paperwork. Etc etc. This is their livelihood, can’t see them wanting to tarnish their reputation by giving you inaccurate information. Is there a contact, even an AI bot on their website you could chat to? Likely not the first query of this nature they’ll have had. Xx

@XelaM - you could stick with the LF but replace a few of the doors with ‘fun’ items. If you went into Sephora or SNK, the staff there could tell you what the mid-teens are currently into.

I think I'm just going to see if I can click and collect it tomorrow, the when it goes into store for collection, I'll have to see if I can get a cheap flight there and back 🤭

I’ve just watched a YESSTYLE a/c unboxing video and, I must admit, it’s a lot better than I thought from just reading the contents.

As I have just ordered lots of stuff from SK, I can’t order YESSTYLE too. But I don’t think I would stand much chance of getting my hands on one anyway!

Postal Store pick-up points in Cork, Drogheda, Kildare, Leitrim, Leixlip, Letterkenny, Longford, Maynooth, Ongar D15, Ratoath (Meath), Sligo, Strabane, Swords, Westmeath (Mullingar I think). HTH

I also seriously considered the BT AC. I contacted 2 forwarding services in NI with good reviews online. Both said they don't ship perfume. And, I also considered flying over to get it, but the cost of that made the calendar more than I wanted to spend on it.

Instead, I've purchased SAC, HAC and LFAC. Selfridges had a few specific high value items I'll use and Harrods is a bit of an introduction to nicer skincare. LF is the one I haven't looked at and will provide a daily surprise.

@JoRaRaRa Perhaps you could be a BAC mule for us lot? I’m interested in the Brown Thomas BAC but thwarted by geography/Brexit.

Not sure, but the point was more about checking sparks offers when going to purchase (something I often forget to do!)

I used to work with a courier company. Businesses have different rules than ‘gen pop’. This is because they agree the packaging that will be used and the couriers are confident that there is unlikely to be breakage/ spillage etc. When a random person send something it is less likely to be packaged properly and more likely to break.

Ah! That makes sense!

In my defence, I have been badly influenced. I too have an enormous stash that I am trying to reduce.

I was only going to get the HFAC. I should have stopped following these threads when I bought that but yet here I am, planning on buying BT tomorrow and the Boots skincare if it’s still on discount when they update my points from today’s purchase.

Oh I also had champagne 😳

I have soft drinks and mixers. Champagne would be better.

I'm already thinking it's going to weigh a ton for me to get just one back on a flight 🤣

I thought I'd share my Sephora Hell from today! Earlier as I mentioned, when I arrived at the store, intending to be in and out in 10 mins as I had a lunch with boyf planned, within seconds the fire alarm sounded and the entire wing of the shopping centre had to be evacuated and closed off. They wouldn't let us leave to retrieve our cars for 3 whole hours!!!! It was torture. Turned out a van had caught fire in the carpark at Westfield White City. Anyway, after that very long wait, during which I did more shopping than intended in the rest of the area, as soon as it reopened and we were allowed home, I went back into Sephora determined to buy an advent. As a previous poster mentioned, I got 15% off setting up a new membership (with the staff taking pity on me), so I got it for 211, which I was pleased about. I made my way back to get my car lugging the extremely heavy box, only to be stopped in John Lewis and not allowed to access the carpark for health and safety following on from the fire. Another half an hour wait with a bunch of fed up people and agitated workmen trying to go home. We were offered hot drinks as compensation. And no charge for parking. What a day....And then I got home and checked the advent contents, it was trulywonderful, so very happy with it.😊

If anyone fancies a day trip to Dublin though, let me know 🤣 I'm hoping I can do either 2nd or 9th Oct. Am I mad? Please tell me this is reasonable behaviour.

Gosh what an outing @Seahorses12! Please tell me you got scran at some point, I felt hungry reading that. And I would have gone quite mad with hunger if I’d been held somewhere for three hours over lunchtime, I even block out 12-12:30 at work so I am guaranteed time to grab something to eat.

Long as the flight is a reasonable price, it’s reasonable behaviour! Sometimes flying is cheaper than rail fares. Will it go in hand luggage? Are there any restrictions on liquids in hand luggage these days? So long since I have flown😂

With shipping the BT calendars is there anyone that can accept them and have DHL collect and ship? They will stick a hazardous label and handle them correctly. My Harrods calendars are currently with DHL waiting on shipping to the Channel Islands.

Yes, luckily I managed to get some food from another area, thanks! It reminded me of Ryan Air delays when you're trapped in an airport for hours waiting for news and can't go anywhere and you have no choice.

Late night check in to say thanks for the new thread @26inprogress

FOMO (is it fomo if you have already got something??) hit this morning and I bought a second JL FAC in the 30 seconds between getting out of bed at 6.30am and my brain catching up with my fingers and pointing out that I’ve barely started trying all the scents from the first one I was lucky enough to score a few weeks ago, plus there’s all the Liberty BAC perfumes, and I’m still considering Harrods / BT BACs. Ah well. What’s done before I’m awake doesn’t count, right?

Carefully not looking at Boots skincare right now. Honest.

@DidILeaveTheGasOn thank you for absolutely cracking me up several times today when I sneaked a peek at this thread during a very long meeting. Although I did struggle to keep a straight face 😂

@JoRaRaRa I was literally thinking the same re BT and flights, I was looking on Ryanair earlier this evening 😅
I can’t imagine that a BAC/FAC could be allowed as hand luggage due to volumes of fragrances, therefore for a reasonably timed flight and hold luggage it was around £100.

I realised just how dippy I am that it didn’t occur to me that my Dsis now lives in Dublin! (In my defence it’s a recent move)
However, I sent her something this week and it was delivered to the wrong address, so I wouldn’t trust that as an option (and I’m furious that her parcel has gone awol)

I’m half asleep now so can’t remember everyone who replied regarding the postage situation, but thank you all for the info! 💐 I think I’m starting to wrap my head around it all now

BT is live delivery from 9th October.
List of contents (and sizes)
Set Contents:

• Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair Serum Synchronized Multi-Recovery Complex 30ml
• Le Labo SANTAL 33 Eau de Parfum 15ml
• Murad Retinol Youth Renewal Eye Serum 15ml
• Augustinus Bader The Rich Cream 15ml
• La Prairie Foam Cleanser 50ml
• Skingredients Skin Protein Anti-Ageing Retinoid Serum 45ml
• Jo Malone London Lime Basil & Mandarin Cologne 30ml
• Oribe Gold Lust Nourishing Hair Oil 50ml
• Brow Aid IllumiLift Eye and Brow Hydrogel Mask 5 Pack
• Champo Leave-in Perfecting Cream 75ml
• Trinny London Take Back Time Eye Cream 15ml
• Sisley Botanical Floral Toning Lotion 100 ml
• Clinique Moisture Surge™ 100H Auto-Replenishing Hydrator 30ml
• Balmain Carbone Eau de Parfum 10ml
• La Mer The Rejuvenating Night Cream 15ml
• Kevin Murphy UN.TANGLED Detangling Leave-In Conditioner 150ml
• K18 Leave-In Molecular Repair Mask 15ml
• Bobbi Brown Luxe Lipstick in Sandwash Pink 3.5g
• Pestle & Mortar Glow up Mask 50g
• Pestle & Mortar Detox Mask 50g
• Fragrance Du Bois Sirène Parfum 30ml
• Fugazzi Angel Dust Extrait de Parfum 50ml
• Rodial Vit C Brightening Cleanser 135ml
• Ex Nihilo Blue Talisman Eau de Parfum 50ml
• Ground Superseed Lipid Face Oil 30ml
• Elizabeth Arden Advanced Ceramide Capsules Daily Youth Restoring Eye Serum 60-Piece

Eta- I’ve bought and am braving parcel flow. Will let you all know how it goes 🙈.

I love that this is a day out you’re planning. Trips are fun and we should spend our time doing things that we love and buying things which make us happy - win win!

I haven’t been to Dublin in about 25 years and think I need a weekend away there soon as it was such a fun city!