Although severely underrated, luxury beauty advent calendars are by far my favorite gift to receive throughout the holiday season—especially if they’re filled to the brim with aesthetic-yet-functional products I can incorporate into my self care routine well before the new year. This season, I’m seeing hundreds of advent calendars that are worth your attention, but only a few that completely surpass all others for my fellow beauty enthusiasts.
As a newcomer to the world of advent callendars, I’m just now discovering the excitement of opening a box or sliding out a drawer to discover a sweet gift. If you’ve been wondering which ones to invest in this holiday season for you or a loved one’s enjoyment, keep scrolling for my edit of the best luxury options on the market from beloved brands like Saks Fifth Avenue and Bloomingdales to Dior and La Mer.
Price per item: $7.64 Saks Fifth Avenue’s giftable advent calendar includes 25 coveted self-care luxuries from world renowned brands including Guerlain, Parfums de Marly, Diptyque, Clé de Peau Beauté, Aesop, and Gucci. Featuring a selection of designer fragrances, hair health essentials, and top-rated makeup favorites, this is one present any beauty enthusiast would love to receive.
Price per item: $2.88 One of the most affordable luxury options, Babor’s Holiday Advent Calendar is comprised of 24 single-use skin care ampoules with a wide-range of power-packed formulas. Its cutting-edge products to address all skin types and concerns.
Price per item: $3.33 Worth $115 in value, this year’s L’Occitane 2023 advent calendar offers 24 travel-size versions of the French brand’s best sellers. It’s an absolute must for anyone who values phytotherapy (treatment through plants) and aromatherapy.
Price per item: $12.50 Are you looking to kick-off 2024 with expert-level skincare? Peter Thomas Roth’s 12 Days of Beauty Advent Calendar is one of the best ways to start with a selection of the brand’s bestsellers. It happens to include three favorites that are part of the Water Drench line.
Price per item: $11.17 Voluspa’s Advent Calendar is curated to perfection with 12 days of fragrances. With a burn time of 25 hours each and crafted from coconut wax in eye-catching vessels, the gorgeous candles offered in this set are year-round and seasonal Japonica fragrances.
Price per item: $6. The Lancôme Advent Calendar gift set that features a makeup advent calendar, perfume advent calendar, and skincare advent calendar in one. Featuring five full-size and 19 travel-size versions of Lancôme’s best makeup, skincare, and fragrance products valued at $635.
Price per item: $15.00 Stocked with 12 best-selling skincare and makeup essentials (including three full-size favorites) from Bobbi Brown, this advent calendar brings on the glow. These products can prep your skin, create holiday party–ready looks in seconds, and deliver post-party cleansing.
Price per item: $8.40 Fragrance lovers, this one’s for you. Apotheke’s 25 Day Advent Calendar includes a curated selection of candles, diffusers, and limited-edition accessories to make the holiday season even brighter. Ideal for all decor styles, its beautifully packaged silver-and–navy-blue box evokes the night sky.
Price per item: $10.00 Embossed with a golden wreath, this advent calendar by Molton Brown features 24 beloved bath, haircare, fragrance, and home products to deliver some luxurious self care for the holidays. Described as pioneers of “positive luxury,” Molton Brown should be on every beauty lover’s wish list.
Price per item: $11.66 YSL’s gorgeous 24-piece luxury advent calendar is filled to the brim with surprise fragrances, makeup, skincare, and accessories to discover. Featuring both full-size and mini products, it’s valued at $552. I can’t wait to get my hands on this one!
Price per item: $12.00 Can’t decide which major luxury beauty product to go for? I honestly can’t get enough from Bloomingdale’s advent calendar. It checks all the boxes; offering 25 products from the most-sought after beauty brands including La Prairie, YSL, Prada, Maison Francis Kurkdjian, and Valentino.
Price per item: $16.67 Bring home the magic of the season with Charlotte’s Lucky Chest of Beauty Secrets. Every drawer contains one of the brand’s bestselling skincare and makeup products in travel and full sizes. If this one has caught your eye, hurry—it’s selling out everywhere!
Price per item: $35.42 Featuring silk serums, nourishing creams, and more, La Mer’s The World of La Mer 12-Day Advent Calendar is the epitome of holiday magic. Valued at $720, it can be yours for $425 (aka the perfect opportunity to try the products you’ve had on your wish list from this luxury skincare brand).
Price per item: $19.80 If you know me, then you know I’m a Jo Malone girl through and through. This year’s festive gingerbread-inspired advent calendar offers 25 drawers of charming holiday fragrances including colognes, candles, bath and body miniatures. It’s the perefect way to add some Jo Malone magic to your holiday.
Price per item: $20.40 Fact: Diptyque has incredible advent calendars every year. This year’s gift set includes three fragrances Sapin (Pine Tree), Délice (Delight) and Coton (Cotton) accompanied by 25 surprises for you to count down to the holidays. Its box also retains its magic after the festive season, with a delicate flame-shaped calligram design.
Price per item: $31.25 Re-creating the facade of the historic boutique at 30 Avenue Montaigne, Dior’s 2023 advent calendar opens to display a stunning decoration created by Pietro Ruffo inspired by the beauty of the Tuileries Garden. Inside, you’ll discover 24 miniature and travel-size products across, makeup, fragrance, and skincare.
