The Vogue Festive Calendar 2026 has a Longchamp coin purse in it. It has two pieces of Otiumberg jewellery, a pair of cashmere socks, a Therabody device and a Burberry fragrance, sitting alongside La Mer, Murad, SkinCycles and Charlotte Tilbury. At £355 it’s one of the most expensive calendars we’ve covered this season, and one of the few that doesn’t feel interchangeable with everything else on the shelf.
The numbers
The Vogue Festive Calendar 2026 is £355, with 28 products, all of which Vogue states are full size. Vogue puts the total value at over £1,680, which works out at roughly 4.7 times the purchase price — the highest multiple of any calendar we’ve reviewed this season. Working through Vogue’s own RRPs line by line, the physical contents come to approximately £1,685.50, so the “over £1,680” claim holds up under scrutiny rather than being rounded generously in Vogue’s favour.
Buyers also receive a one-year British Vogue digital subscription worth £24.99, which Vogue presents as an additional benefit rather than one of the 28 products — we’ve treated it the same way, so the value figure above is physical contents only. £75,000 from sales of the calendar is being split between three charities Vogue supports: Sistah Space, akt, and Women for Refugee Women. Orders are open now, with delivery windows running from 12 October through to 27 November.
Does it pique our interest?
The fashion inclusions are the first thing to talk about, because they’re substantial in a way that “lifestyle extras” in beauty calendars usually aren’t. A £190 Otiumberg Link Up necklace, a £155 Otiumberg bracelet and a £120 Longchamp Le Pliage Xtra coin purse are not novelty fillers or branded keyrings. Those three items alone total £465, which already exceeds the £355 you paid for the entire calendar, and the £70 pair of Loop cashmere socks takes the accessories section to £535. You could reasonably decide the beauty contents were a bonus and still feel you’d done well.
What strikes us more, though, is that the whole thing feels curated rather than assembled. Emma Lewisham, SkinCycles, Otiumberg, Longchamp, Therabody, Lisa Eldridge, Merit and Charlotte Mensah aren’t the roster you get when a calendar is built by working down a list of brands with stock to move — they’re the kind of choices that come from people who read fashion and beauty for a living. The SkinCycles Revive Eyes at £140 and Murad Retinal ReSculpt at £98 give the skincare real weight, and the La Mer Lip Volumizer at £75 anchors the makeup, but none of them feels like the calendar’s only reason to exist.
The packaging is genuinely part of the proposition here, which is rarer than it should be. This isn’t a cardboard cabinet of numbered drawers destined for the recycling on 26 December — it’s a travel-trunk-inspired vanity case with working drawers and a mirror, decorated with illustrated destination stickers referencing Vogue’s international editions. It’s an object you’d keep, and for a calendar being bought as a gift, that matters.
There’s also a well-judged spread across categories that a lot of luxury calendars miss. Wellness and body are properly represented rather than tokenistic: the Therabody TheraFace Depuffing Wand at £129 is a serious inclusion, and the Verden Nocturne magnesium night balm, 39BC body cleanser and Nuxe roll-on oil fill out a section that would be one hand cream in a lesser box. The NEOM Real Luxury candle covers home fragrance, and haircare gets three proper products, including Charlotte Mensah’s Manketti oil.
What we’d change
We have genuinely fewer complaints about this one than most, but there are a few things we’d flag.
There’s only one fragrance. Burberry Her Eau de Parfum at 30ml is a good, generous inclusion — a full bottle rather than a vial — but for a £355 calendar built around a fashion identity, a second scent, particularly something niche or less widely stocked, would have made the mix feel even more considered.
The accessory value is also quite concentrated, and that’s worth understanding before you commit. Roughly £535 of the £1,685.50 total sits in the jewellery, the Longchamp purse and the socks. If those are exactly to your taste, the calendar is extraordinary value. If the Otiumberg pieces aren’t your style, you won’t personally experience anything close to £1,680 of usefulness, because nearly a third of the stated value is tied up in four items you may not wear.
And a handful of the beauty choices are familiar. Color Wow Dream Coat, the Charlotte Tilbury Beauty Light Wand, NEOM’s Real Luxury candle and 111Skin’s eye masks are all good products, but if you’ve bought two or three premium calendars in recent years, you’ve almost certainly met them before, and they won’t be the doors you remember. None of this changes the overall picture much — the balance here is unusually strong, and the things we’d change are refinements rather than problems.
Full contents list
Makeup
Charlotte Tilbury — Beauty Light Wand Highlighter, Peachgasm
ILIA Beauty — Overglaze Lip Gloss, Figure
La Mer — The Lip Volumizer, Sheer Shine
Lisa Eldridge — Liquid Lurex Eyeshadow, Emily
MERIT — Flush Balm, Archival
Kevyn Aucoin — Duet Shadow Brush and Cream/Powder Blush Brush, two brushes
Skincare
111Skin — Cryo De-Puffing Eye Mask, three masks
Laneige — Bouncy & Firm Serum, 30ml
Murad — Retinal ReSculpt Overnight Cream, 50ml
Emma Lewisham — Supernatural Vitale Elixir, 30ml
SkinCycles — Revive Eyes, 30ml
Votary — Super Sensitive Cleansing Cream, 100ml
Haircare
Charlotte Mensah — Manketti Hair Oil
Hair by Sam McKnight — Modern Hairspray Styling Mist with Heat Protection, 250ml
Color Wow — Dream Coat Supernatural Spray, 200ml
Bodycare & wellness
Nuxe — Huile Prodigieuse Roll-On Multi-Purpose Dry Oil, 60ml
39BC — Oil Body Cleanser, Fig Milk, 280ml
Verden — Nocturne Magnesium Night Balm, 75ml
Fragrance
Burberry — Her Eau de Parfum, 30ml
Beauty tools
Therabody — TheraFace Depuffing Wand
Home fragrance
NEOM — Real Luxury Scented Candle, 1 wick
Fashion & accessories
Longchamp — Le Pliage Xtra Coin Purse, Fir
Otiumberg — Bespoke Mixed Metal Link Up Bracelet
Otiumberg — Bespoke Mixed Metal Link Up Necklace
Loop Cashmere — Socks, Barolo Red
Included in addition to the 28 products: a one-year British Vogue digital subscription, with unlimited access throughout 2027.
Who it’s perfect for
This reads much more like a luxury Christmas gift for someone who loves fashion and beauty than a calendar for someone stockpiling skincare. It’s an exceptional fit for someone who responds to Longchamp, Burberry, Vogue and Otiumberg as names, and who likes the idea of opening jewellery and accessories alongside serum and lipstick. It’s the calendar we’d choose if we were buying for someone else and wanted the unwrapping to feel like an event, because the trunk itself does a lot of work before a single drawer is opened.
If your only question is how much beauty you get for £355, this isn’t the most efficient answer to it — roughly a third of the value sits outside beauty entirely. Our Sephora Beauty Advent Calendar 2026 review covers a considerably more beauty-dense box at £120 less, if that’s the trade you’d rather make.
Our Pique Verdict
Perfect for: Someone who loves fashion as much as beauty, and would rather open jewellery than another serum.
Best product: Otiumberg Bespoke Mixed Metal Link Up Necklace — £190.
Biggest drawback: Around £535 of the value sits in four accessories, so it rewards a specific taste.
Value for money: ★★★★★ (5/5)
Buy the Vogue Festive Calendar 2026 — £355
It’s one of our picks in The Best Luxury Advent Calendars 2026, if you’d like to see it alongside the others worth the splurge.
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FAQ
How much is the Vogue Festive Calendar 2026?
The Vogue Festive Calendar 2026 is £355. Vogue states the contents are worth over £1,680, and buyers also receive a one-year British Vogue digital subscription worth £24.99.
How many products are in the Vogue advent calendar 2026?
There are 28 products, all of which Vogue states are full size. Vogue’s contents table lists 25 product lines; the count reaches 28 because the 111Skin entry contains three eye masks and the Kevyn Aucoin entry contains two brushes.
Is everything in the Vogue Festive Calendar 2026 full size?
Yes. Vogue states all 28 products are full size, including the Burberry Her Eau de Parfum at 30ml and the Therabody TheraFace Depuffing Wand.
Does the Vogue Festive Calendar 2026 include jewellery?
It does. There are two Otiumberg pieces, the Bespoke Mixed Metal Link Up bracelet and necklace, worth £155 and £190 respectively, alongside a Longchamp Le Pliage Xtra coin purse and a pair of Loop cashmere socks.
When is the Vogue Festive Calendar 2026 delivered?
Delivery windows run from 12 October through to 27 November.
Is the Vogue Festive Calendar 2026 worth it?
At roughly 4.7 times the purchase price in stated value, the arithmetic is strong, and the three largest accessories alone exceed the £355 price. Whether it’s worth it to you depends on how much you want the fashion element, since around a third of the value sits outside beauty.
Read next: ELLE Beauty Advent Calendar 2026, Selfridges Beauty Advent Calendar 2026 and Sephora Beauty Advent Calendar 2026.
