For 2026 those are the Exclusive Beauty Highlights (22 brands with Estée Lauder, MAC and Clarins among them, the full list printed, 450 EUR of contents for 79.99, the best-value beauty box in Germany this year) and the Luxury at 199 EUR, where retail-size Olaplex, Nuxe, Paula's Choice and Caudalie sit beside 7-to-15 ml La Mer, Augustinus Bader and Jo Malone, against a 1,000 EUR valuation.
Both print their lists. The prestige names in the cheaper box are 5 to 15 ml minis; the Luxury is the one to buy if the minis are the point.
Step 01
Match the doors to the days
8 of the 9 here have 24 doors — a 24-door box opens one a day from 1 December to Christmas Eve. The other one has 7, and the shorter ones start partway through the month: a 12-door box opens on 13 December. For someone who will not open one every day, or a gift that will arrive late, fewer doors is the better fit, not the lesser calendar. Every start date →
Step 02
Know which season you are buying
2 of the 9 here are 2026 editions. The 7 older than that are listed for the record, not for buying. A brand's page keeps every edition together, so check whether the box you are looking at is this year's before you compare prices.
Step 03
Start from the ones we have opened
6 of the 9 here carry an editors' pick — the chip above the grid narrows the shelf to those — and 3 have a written score. Those are the boxes somebody on this site has actually judged. The rest are listed because they exist, not because we are recommending them; being on this page is not a verdict. How we review →
