2023 Must Have Advent Calendars
It’s that time of year. It’s advent calendar season and as we have seen in previous years, you need to be quick to get your hands on some of the most popular advent calendars around as they sell out very quickly. We’ve scoured the internet and stores to find the best advent calendars this year for you:
T2
T2 has three advent calendars for you to choose from this year. The Tea Lover’s 24 Day Fabulous Feast Tea Bag Advent Calendar is filled with these 24 celebratory tea bags. The Tea Party Extravaganza Luxury Advent Calendar is T2’s finest, carefully curated by T2’s specialist team of tea lovers. Every drawer is packed with best-selling and limited-edition tea and teawares to keep moods high and tastebuds joyous all December long. Then there’s the Festival of Flavour Luxury Advent Calendar. What’s better than a tea gift? 12! Add a whole lot of flavour to December with a premium line-up of tea and treats. Day-by-day you’ll be wowed by boxes filled with lust-worthy flavours and accessories to elevate your brewing rituals to the highest levels of enjoyment.
The advent calendars can be purchased via the T2 Website.
MAC Cosmetics
MAC’s “Frosted Frenzy” limited-edition advent calendar is THE hottest beauty advent calendar (they usually sell out in record time). Worth over $850, the limited-edition Holiday Beauty Advent Calendar with 24 indulgent treats, including 21 full-sized products. Featuring best-selling products and all-new shades at a very merry value, it’s the makeup advent calendar you won’t want to miss! The MAC Cosmetics advent calendar can be purchased in-store or via the MAC website.
Glasshouse Fragrances
Glasshouse Fragrances has a limited edition 24 Days of Christmas advent calendar. With mini versions of 24 of our most indulgent products, there’s a little bit of something from each fragrance family. It’s a no-brainer gift for those who live for fine fragrances or a clever way to discover new fragrances as a gift to themselves. You can shop the advent calendar on the Glasshouse fragrances website.
Charlotte Tilbury
This year’s Charlotte Tilbury offering is a gorgeous 12-drawer beauty advent calendar that features some of my most magical and award-winning Charlotte Tilbury makeup and skincare icons! Discover an iconic beauty secret in every jewel-handled drawer to make all your beauty dreams come true this holiday season and beyond! Available from Charlotte Tilbury.
Koko Black
A countdown of handcrafted pralines awaits behind every door, so you can Koko Black your way to Christmas day. The Christmas Advent Calendar contains Koko Black’s most-loved milk, and dark and white chocolate treasures to festive flavours like cinnamon and spiced eggnog, unravel the daily riddle and follow the trail left by Santa’s sleigh! The Yours & Mine Advent Calendar shares the joy of every surprise this year with our 2-in-1 Advent Calendar. The new double-draw design will ensure there are no fights over who gets to enjoy the bliss in every bite. Let the magical countdown begin! The A Very Koko Advent Calendar offers little door surprises and delights, with a moreish milk chocolate tile behind each one. Watch their faces light up each day before Christmas with something new and sweet for all. The Koko Black advent calendars can be found on their website.
L’OCCITANE
Make the countdown to Christmas even more special when you open a door a day to discover L’OCCITANE favourites or new treats to add to your skincare, body care, haircare and fragrance collections. 24 Beauty Treats, 24 days discovering the best of L’OCCITANE products, including their latest novelties. This advent calendar features our most popular body, hair and skincare products. PLUS a full-sized product for an extra special Christmas surprise. The L’OCCITANE advent calendars are available at L’OCCITANE and David Jones.
Palm Beach
The Palm Beach Collection Christmas Advent Calendar will get anyone into the Festive Spirit and is designed especially for those who love all things Christmas! Numbered from 1 to 12, each box contains a different festively fragranced 50g Mini Candle surprise for yourself, family or friends to enjoy and to count down the Twelve Days of Christmas! Shop the calendar here.
Benefit
Get 24 of Benefit’s bestselling & fan-favourite beauty goodies with their limited edition Advent Calendar. Open a door each day for a holiday beauty surprise! Get yours at Adore Beauty.
Laithwaites
An advent calendar has never been so much fun! Open 24 doors to reveal 24 different delicious festive discoveries from around the world in fun-sized piccolo bottles. Indulge in Aussie red, white and rosé favourites, bestselling French, Italian and Portuguese reds, a stylish Italian Prosecco star and plenty more, Gold medal-winners included! Many of the wines are exclusive to Laithwaites so you can be sure you are giving (or receiving) something truly unique. Discover 24 delicious wines every day leading up to Christmas Eve. Includes 23 bottles x 187ml plus a 375ml bottle of Prosecco. Order yours here.
Walkers
Exclusive to David Jones, this stunning Walkers Shortbread advent calendar will provide fans with a daily bite-sized treat in the lead-up to Christmas Day. Yum! What could be better than Walker’s shortbread and a cuppa every day? The Walker’s Advent calendar can be purchased at David Jones stores or on their website.
Yves Saint Laurent
For Holiday 2023, discover the luxurious Yves Saint Laurent Advent Calendar containing 18 miniatures, 5 full-size products and a particular gift. This Advent Calendar features 24 of YSL’s most beloved beauty icons. Let Yves Saint Laurent take you on a blasting countdown this Holiday Season. The YSL Advent Calendar is available at Myer and YSL website.
12. Bookgrocer
THE Advent Calendar for book lovers! This year Bookgrocer has not one advent calendar box but 8 boxes to choose from this year. Choose an advent calendar box from 8 genres, including Fiction Box, Crime Fiction Box, Fantasy Fiction Box, Young Adult Box (13+), Picture Books Box, Chapter Book Box (Ages 7-12), Romance and Relationships Bargain Book Box and Non-Fiction Book Box. All book boxes contain 24 books individually wrapped for the recipient and numbered, designed to be opened each day from 1 December to Christmas Eve. You can order yours via the Bookgrocer website.
Wedgewood
For an unforgettable festive season, indulge your home with our best-selling luxury advent calendar. For 2023, this beautiful handmade Georgian-style house comprises 24 small but perfectly formed collectable ornaments, each patiently waiting to be taken out of the mini drawers in the lead-up to Christmas. Exquisitely detailed and carefully decorated, each delightful decoration is magically crafted from porcelain inspired by Wedgewood’s iconic blue and white jasperware. Something they’ll treasure forever, this is a very special gift for a very special person. The calendar is available through Peter’s of Kensington.
Body Shop
If you are a lover of The Body Shop’s products, you are going to be beside yourself over the three (yes, three!) advent calendars they have on offer this year. In the Box of Wishes Advent Calendar, you’ll find a couple of our wonderfully fragrant Shower Creams. Or our must-have Mango Body Butter, enriched with Community Fair Trade mango seed oil, to help hydrate your skin. There might even be a Sheet Mask or two to love your face in time for Christmas Day. Here to help you buff, slather and nourish head-to-toe, the Box of Wonders Big Advent Calendar is packed with 25 surprises, including some full-sized favourites. The Box of Wishes & Wonders Ultimate Advent Calendar is bursting with iconic full-sized bestsellers as well as exciting new products, beauty tools and everything you need to nourish your body and soul. Scrub, soften and slather your way to your most beautiful Christmas yet with our luxurious Sheet Masks, nourishing Body Butters, and rejuvenating Body Scrubs. Available instore and online.
Lancome
Discover the perfect Holiday gift with the Advent Calendar by Lancome, featuring 24 beauty favourites in fragrance, skincare and makeup. This limited edition piece awaits you: 24 drawers and boxes enclosing 5 full-size beauty icons and 19 travel sizes. For the final day, let yourself be surprised by box 24 with an exceptional surprise. Discover inside the Advent Calendar a whimsical universe made of piles of gifts and the shining Lancôme rose to adorn a deep night sky. This beautiful advent calendar is available at Myer, Lancome and Adore Beauty.