Christian Louboutin Advent Calendar

Christian Louboutin Advent Calendar 2026: 24 fragrances, lip products and charms from the Maison

The Christian Louboutin Advent Calendar 2026 is a limited-edition beauty calendar with 24 doors, and it reads as a tour of the Maison’s own shelf rather than a pick-and-mix. Nine of the doors hold 9ml Eau de Parfum miniatures from the Fétiche and Loubi lines, nine hold makeup, and the last six hold the collectible charms the house is known for. At £545 it sits firmly in the Selfridges luxury bracket, well above a high-street beauty calendar.

What is inside the Christian Louboutin beauty advent calendar 2026?

Twenty-four pieces, split across three clear families. Nine fragrances, all in the 9ml miniature format: the six Fétiche scents (Le Cuir, L’Ambre, L’Ébène, Le Santal, La Rose and the new L’Iris) plus Loubicroc, Loubirouge and Loubifunk. Nine makeup pieces: the SooooO…Glow refillable lipstick case and its refill, a Rouge Stiletto Vinyl Gloss, a Lumi Matte slimstick, two Glossy Shine slimsticks, two Loubibelle Lip Oils and the Lalaque Le Vernis nail colour. And six charms and accessories, up from four last year.

So the balance leans to lips and scent. Of the nine makeup pieces, eight are for the lips (the Vinyl Gloss, the slimsticks, the refillable lipstick and its refill, and the two Loubibelle oils), with a single nail colour and nothing for the eyes or complexion. If you want a broad beauty routine behind the doors, this is not that calendar. What it does hold, it holds in grown-up formats: the lip products are full retail sizes, not sachets.

What the contents are actually worth

We priced the box against Christian Louboutin’s own UK shop. On the 18 pieces we could cost (the fragrances pro-rated by millilitre, the makeup at full retail), the contents come to over £650. The six charms we left out, since they aren’t sold separately and any figure for them would be invented. The Maison positioned the previous edition at around £773; our own count lands lower, so the headline value is real but not the bargain that number suggests. Divide the £545 launch price across the 24 doors and each one works out at about £22.71.

The door-by-door breakdown sits in the SPOILER tab.

From £410 to £545: four years of the Louboutin calendar

We have the Louboutin calendar on record every year since 2022, and the price has climbed steadily: £410 in 2022, £500 in 2023, £525 in 2024, then £545 for 2025. It holds at £545 for 2026, a flat year in a luxury category where most houses nudged their calendars up.

The content moved more than the price. The charms go from four to six. The fragrances are now all 9ml miniatures, so the 2ml samples that padded the 2025 edition (Le Santal and La Rose arrived as sample vials) are gone, and L’Iris and Loubicroc replace Loubidoo and Loubicharme. The makeup gains the Loubibelle Lip Oils and the Rouge Stiletto Glossy Shine and Vinyl Gloss, and the Lalaque nail colour switches from Drama Noir to Rouge Louboutin 001. The look stays put: the same festive, sculptural Louboutin packaging, carried over whole.

My view on the Christian Louboutin Advent Calendar 2026

What convinces first is the format honesty: the lip products are full sizes, and the move from 2ml fragrance vials to 9ml miniatures is a real upgrade over last year. Two extra charms and the new Loubibelle oils make the box feel fuller than the 2025 one for the same money.

Where it falls down is the value gap. The Maison’s past figure sat near £773; our own pricing, across the 18 pieces we could cost, lands over £650, and the six charms carry no verifiable value at all. There is also nothing here for skincare, eyes or complexion, so a £545 spend buys depth in lips and scent, not range.

Who it’s for: existing Louboutin devotees and gift-buyers with a luxury budget. Not for anyone chasing the best contents-to-price ratio, who will do better with a Lookfantastic or Selfridges beauty edit at a fraction of the outlay.

The Christian Louboutin spirit, beauty with a red sole

Christian Louboutin built the house on the red-soled shoe before extending into beauty, and the make-up carried the same signatures across: the stiletto-shaped lipstick, the heavy sculptural caps, the lacquer-red vernis.

That is exactly why this calendar leans on charms and refillable cases, not a wide beauty spread. The Christian Louboutin beauty line treats a lipstick as a keepsake, and the box is built to match that idea more than to stock a bathroom shelf.

Where to buy the Christian Louboutin Advent Calendar 2026

This calendar is sold through Christian Louboutin and at Selfridges, as a limited-edition seasonal release. Compare the live offers at the top of this page.

• Retailers: Christian Louboutin and Selfridges
• Discount code: none available at the moment
• Delivery: Selfridges offers free UK delivery on orders over £150