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The 2025 Advent Index, Canada: the season in Canadian dollars
Every advent calendar we listed for 2025 with a price in Canada — 40 of them, 6 with a written verdict and 23 with an itemised manifest — priced at the lowest offer we hold there, in Canadian dollars, and set against the season before on the boxes printed in Canadian dollars both years. 8 of the brands had never made one before.
- 40
- calendars priced in Canada
- CA$9.35
- median price of a door · of 40
- 2.3×
- their price in contents · of 15
- 8
- brands new to us · of 32
Every figure carries the number it is drawn from. Prices are the lowest offer we hold in Canada, in Canadian dollars, on the day the offers were read; a box with no price there is not on this shelf. Frozen: a past season, recomputed as the archive improves.
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By kind, and by who it is for
How each one is countedOnly this season’s boxes are measured. Door price is the price on the box over its doors; value is what the contents come to at retail over that price; new brands had no calendar in any earlier season. The change on the year is the median per-door move across the boxes we hold for both seasons. Prices are the lowest offer in Canada, in Canadian dollars.The definitions, one by one →| Kind, or who it is for | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Every calendar | 40 | CA$181.65 of 40 | CA$9.35 of 40 | 2.3× of 15 | 8 of 32 |
| For womenrecipient | 19 | CA$292.32 of 19 | CA$16.20 of 19 | 3.0× of 11 | 4 of 18 |
| Beauty | 18 | CA$307.71 of 18 | CA$17.34 of 18 | 2.3× of 11 | 2 of 17 |
| For kidsrecipient | 13 | CA$51.49 of 13 | CA$2.15 of 13 | — | 3 of 8 |
| For teensrecipient | 13 | CA$189.30 of 13 | CA$12.42 of 13 | — | 4 of 13 |
| Toys | 10 | CA$50.11 of 10 | CA$2.09 of 10 | — | 3 of 5 |
| Art & Hobbies | 10 | CA$102.14 of 10 | CA$4.17 of 10 | — | 5 of 8 |
| For menrecipient | 8 | CA$130.55 of 8 | CA$5.44 of 8 | — | 3 of 7 |
| Household items | 7 | — | — | — | 0 of 3 |
Sort any column; the first row is the whole shelf and stays put, and a kind’s name opens its archive at the figures. A dash is a figure the records cannot support for that row, and each figure says how many it is drawn from. Full size is a beauty measure: 61% of the 8 beauty boxes with their sizes marked are full size.
What they cost, and what a door costs
How door price is countedPrice in Canada, in Canadian dollars — 40 priced, median CA$181.65
Under CA$2500%
CA$25 to CA$50820%
CA$50 to CA$100718%
CA$100 to CA$200615%
CA$200 to CA$5001435%
CA$500 and up513%
The lowest offer we hold in Canada for each box, whichever shop.
The cheapest door — of 40
| Calendar | Per door |
|---|---|
| LEGO Friends 2025LEGO · 24 doors | CA$1.04 |
| Pukka Organic Tea 2025Pukka · 24 doors | CA$1.16 |
| Play-Doh 2025Play-Doh · 24 doors | CA$1.16 |
| LEGO Minecraft 2025LEGO · 24 doors | CA$1.25 |
| Lindt Teddy Milk Chocolate 2025Lindt · 24 doors | CA$1.49 |
| LEGO Star Wars 2025LEGO · 24 doors | CA$1.56 |
And the dearest
| Calendar | Per door |
|---|---|
| Cult Pen 2025 Stationery Black EditionCult Pen · 12 doors | CA$72.75 |
| DIOR 2025 Le 30 MontaigneDior · 24 doors | CA$46.40 |
| Space NK 2025Space NK · 25 doors | CA$33.41 |
| Fenty Beauty + Skin 2025Fenty · 12 doors | CA$28.42 |
| Charlotte Tilbury Beauty Treasure Chest 2025Charlotte Tilbury · 12 doors | CA$27.84 |
| Liberty 2025Liberty · 25 doors | CA$26.45 |
Best value on the shelf, and the least
How value is countedContents worth the most against the price — of 15
| Calendar | Price | Contents | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| SELFRIDGES Beauty 2025Selfridges · 25 doors | £250 | £1136 | 4.5× |
| Liberty 2025Liberty · 25 doors | £275 | £1245 | 4.5× |
| Lovehoney Discover Pleasure 2025Lovehoney · 24 doors | £149 | £500 | 3.4× |
| Space NK 2025Space NK · 25 doors | £364 | £1150 | 3.2× |
| Sukoshi 2025SUKOSHI MART · 24 doors | $185 | $580 | 3.1× |
| YesStyle 2025YesStyle · 25 doors | $164.90 | $500 | 3.0× |
| Lovehoney Enjoy Pleasure 2025Lovehoney · 24 doors | £79 | £205 | 2.6× |
| Revolve 2025Revolve · 25 doors | $369 | $841 | 2.3× |
| Lancôme 2025Lancôme · 24 doors | £220 | £480 | 2.2× |
| Harrods 12 Days of Hair & Body 2025Harrods · 12 doors | £130 | £265 | 2.0× |
And the least, by the brand’s own figure
| Calendar | Price | Contents | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| L'Oreal Paris 24 Day Beauty 2025L'Oreal Paris · 24 doors | $149.99 | $149.99 | 1.0× |
| Walkers Shortbread 2025Walkers · 24 doors | $31.99 | $31.99 | 1.0× |
| Play-Doh 2025Play-Doh · 24 doors | $16.49 | $16.49 | 1.0× |
| Charlotte Tilbury Beauty Treasure Chest 2025Charlotte Tilbury · 12 doors | $220 | $314 | 1.4× |
| PLouise 12 Sleighs Of Christmas - Bad BitchPLouise · 12 doors | £110 | £200 | 1.8× |
| Harrods 12 Days of Hair & Body 2025Harrods · 12 doors | £130 | £265 | 2.0× |
| Lancôme 2025Lancôme · 24 doors | £220 | £480 | 2.2× |
| Revolve 2025Revolve · 25 doors | $369 | $841 | 2.3× |
| Lovehoney Enjoy Pleasure 2025Lovehoney · 24 doors | £79 | £205 | 2.6× |
| YesStyle 2025YesStyle · 25 doors | $164.90 | $500 | 3.0× |
Drawn only from boxes whose value is the retailer’s own count, so a low figure is the brand’s claim and not our miscounting.
Dearer here than in another country
How the gap is readFor each box, the lowest priced offer in each country, converted to dollars at rough rates; the gap is this country against the cheapest one. Quoted only where three or more countries carry a price. Shipping, duty and a shop’s own sale are not in it: it is the shelf price, on the day the offers were read.What Canada pays most over the odds for — of 40 priced in two or more countries
| Calendar | Here | Cheapest | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEGO City 2025LEGO · 8 countries | CA$55.67 | $15 United Kingdom | +178% |
| Liberty 2025Liberty · 4 countries | CA$661.20 | $200 United Kingdom | +142% |
| Space NK 2025Space NK · 4 countries | CA$835.20 | $346 United Kingdom | +76% |
| PLouise Cruising Home For Christmas 2025PLouise · 8 countries | CA$471 | $219 United Kingdom | +57% |
| Pukka Organic Tea 2025Pukka · 4 countries | CA$27.83 | $13 United States | +56% |
| Charlotte Tilbury Beauty Treasure Chest 2025Charlotte Tilbury · 4 countries | CA$334.07 | $160 United Kingdom | +53% |
| LEGO Disney Frozen 2025LEGO · 9 countries | CA$57.23 | $28 Germany | +51% |
| Red Bull 2025Red Bull · 5 countries | CA$122.09 | $61 Germany | +46% |
| Lancôme 2025Lancôme · 4 countries | CA$416.21 | $221 Germany | +38% |
| YesStyle 2025YesStyle · 5 countries | CA$310.42 | $165 United States | +37% |
Where the shelf is priced — boxes with a price, by country
A box is counted once per country it has a priced offer in, whichever shop. 40 of the 40 carry a price in more than one country; a country with its own Index is linked.
Who makes it, who sells it, and what is inside
Brands with the most boxes — 32 brands across 40LEGO6Cult Pen2PLouise2Lovehoney2Fisher-Price1SUKOSHI MART1KIKO1Selfridges1
Shops with the most on their shelf — of 40 pricedCult Penscheapest for 22P.Louisecheapest for 22Sukoshicheapest for 11Selfridgescheapest for 11
What is behind the doors — 470 items across 23 boxesStationery22Eau de parfum21Serum20Adult toy20Cream12Cleanser10Not yet typed150
How many doors — all 4024 doors60%12 doors20%25 doors20%
New to the shelf: 8 brands making their first
Every brand, A to ZA brand is new when it has a 2025 record and none in any earlier season we hold; a brand we simply had not listed before counts, so this overstates first calendars and never understates them.