25K+ people found their calendar here last season. Find yours for 2026.
John Lewis sells three kinds of calendar, and the Beauty one is the reason to look: for 2026, forty-one products behind 25 drawers with a FOREO UFO 3 Mini and Sisley, La Mer, Estée Lauder and Shiseido among them, 250 GBP against John Lewis's 1,160 GBP figure, the strongest of the UK department-store boxes on paper, rated 4.5 from us. The others are the drinks calendars, Wine & Fizz at 120 GBP (24 mini bottles) and the 2024 Wine and Fizz boxes, and a twelve-door Scented Candle & Oils calendar at 120 GBP.
7 calendars, 3 new for 2026, most of them 24 doors. Full stats
12 doors · £99 on the box · 0 of 13 full size · rated 4/5
Thirteen serious fragrances for the price of a third of one of them, every vial printed. A discovery set with a calendar's doors, and a good one.
12 doors · £99 on the box · rated 4/5
Against 2025: down 18% to £99; none of the 12 items carried over.
Twelve named minis from NEOM, Skandinavisk, Voluspa, Stoneglow, Aery, Lily-Flame, Paddywax and The White Company for 99 GBP, about 8 GBP a candle, which is what the smallest of them cost singly. A sound sampler of the department store's candle floor, with nothing full size and a quarter of it seen last year.
25 doors · £250 on the box · 4.6× value (brand's figure) · 25 of 36 full size · rated 4.5/5
Forty-one products including a FOREO UFO 3 Mini and Sisley, La Mer and Shiseido skincare, valued at 4.6 times the 250 GBP price, make it the strongest of the UK department-store boxes on paper. Twenty of the 41 are unmarked deluxe sizes, several at 5 to 10 ml, and one door's contents can differ from box to box.
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25 doorsEditors’ pickThe 4 editions below are from 2025 and before. Most are sold out; the pages stay for the prices, the door lists and what changed year to year.
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24 doors| Edition | Doors | Price | Items | Full size | Value | Rating | Against the year before |
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| John Lewis Fragrance 2026 | 12 | £99 | 13 | 0 of 13 | — | 4/5 | — |
| John Lewis Scented Candle 2026 | 12 | £99 | 12 | — | — | 4/5 | down 18% to £99; none of the 12 items carried over |
| John Lewis Beauty 2026 | 25 | £250 | 41 | 25 of 36 | 4.6× | 4.5/5 | — |
| John Lewis Wine & Fizz 2025 | 24 | £120 | 18 | — | — | — | — |
| John Lewis Scented Candle & Oils2025 | 12 | £120 | 12 | — | — | — | — |
| John Lewis Wine2024 | 24 | — | 24 | — | — | — | — |
| John Lewis Fizz2024 | 24 | — | 13 | — | — | — | first edition we hold |
This season's box is listed; its record carries no release date.
Twenty of the beauty box's 41 are unmarked deluxe sizes, several at 5 to 10 ml, and one door's contents can differ from box to box: the two things to know. John Lewis prints the list, which puts it ahead of Harrods on that count; the beauty page puts it beside Selfridges, Liberty and Fortnum's.
The best value among the calendars here that we have rated this season: contents worth 4.6× the price, rated 4.5/5, £250, 25 doors. Forty-one products including a FOREO UFO 3 Mini and Sisley, La Mer and Shiseido skincare, valued at 4.6 times the 250 GBP price, make it the strongest of the UK department-store boxes on paper. Twenty of the 41 are unmarked deluxe sizes, several at 5 to 10 ml, and one door's contents can differ from box to box.
25 doorsEditors’ pickThe 2026 editions, John Lewis Fragrance 2026, John Lewis Scented Candle 2026 and John Lewis Beauty 2026, are out and listed with live retailer prices.
For 2026 there are 3: John Lewis Fragrance 2026 at £99, John Lewis Scented Candle 2026 at £99 and John Lewis Beauty 2026 at £250 on the box; from A$587.14 in Australia and £95.48 in the UK at the shops we track. Earlier editions: £120 in 2025.
13 items behind 12 doors, 0 of 13 full size by the retailer's marking: Frederic Malle Carnal Flower Eau de Parfum, Memo Paris Madurai Eau de Parfum, Memo Paris Odéon Eau de Parfum, Maison Crivelli Tubéreuse Astrale Extrait de Parfum and Acqua di Parma Colonia C.L.U.B. Eau de Cologne and more — the full list is on its page.
The 2026 boxes are listed in Australia and the UK: eBay in Australia from A$587.14 and John Lewis and eBay in the UK from £95.48. The buy table on each calendar's page carries the live prices.
For John Lewis Fragrance 2026, we rated it 4/5. Thirteen serious fragrances for the price of a third of one of them, every vial printed.
