Do you try to get your hands on one of the best beauty advent calendars, which often sell out as soon as they go on sale?

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This year, Jo Malone London’s 25-drawer calendar is housed in an elegant gingerbread inspired case and is filled with miniature colognes, travel candles, bath and body products and one 30ml cologne. It also highlights the differences between different cocoa beans: some countries’ beans are more citrussy, some more smoky, and so on.

Inside you’ll find bestsellers like the Goodnight Pillow Mist and Geranium and Orange Hand Cream as well as a Hyaluronic Acid Hydrating Booster. A mega sized 24 Day Advent Calendar, featuring a complete range of grooming essentials and toiletries designed especially for men.

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Each box contains 24 x 30ml wax-sealed vials, delivering a host of exciting styles and flavour profiles.It’s no wonder: brimming with exclusive, limited edition minis and often full sized products, most of the best make-up advent calendars work as a Christmas gift in their own right.

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The set includes eight 1:64 scale Hot Wheels cars and 16 accessories that inspire wintery adventures. For a slightly more intellectually stimulating December, Julia Donaldson’s much-loved monster counts down to Christmas with a big hardback calendar containing 24 colouring, quizzing, drawing and activity mini-books based on The Gruffalo, Room On The Broom, The Snail and The Whale and others. Though purists would argue that Scottish whisky is the OG, the spirit has been embraced the world over. Biscuiteers’ solution is to team up with designer Sophie Conran on on a limited-edition cloth calendar with 24 embroidered pockets, with the biscuits sold separately. If last year is anything to go by, the Liberty, Jo Malone, Charlotte Tilbury, MAC, Cult Beauty and Harrods calendars are likely to sell out fast.

French skincare, haircare and perfume brand Sisley Paris has launched its first beauty advent calendar this year inside a collector’s case.