Dolce & Gabbana Advent Calendar

Dolce & Gabbana Advent Calendar 2026: 8 fragrances and a full make-up kit

The Dolce & Gabbana Advent Calendar is the house’s first run at the format, and it reads like a fragrance wardrobe with a make-up bag strapped to the side. Behind the 24 doors sit 8 scents, from the summer-shorthand Light Blue to the newer Devotion and The One, next to a near-complete face of D&G make-up: lipstick, liquid lip, blush, mascara, liner, two nail products.

It is one of the priciest beauty calendars of the season, aimed squarely at women who already wear D&G or want to try the whole beauty line at once. This is not a stocking filler. It is a single splurge that stands in for a counter visit.

What’s inside the Dolce & Gabbana calendar

Twenty-four doors, 24 products, split 8 fragrance, 9 make-up, 4 skincare, 3 accessories. The make-up and skincare lean full-size. The Gemstone Lipstick in 420 Emerald Scarlet is a limited-edition shade made for this box, sitting alongside a full-size liquid lipstick, blush, lip tint, two nail products and a lip scrub. The headline skincare piece is two full-size pots of Glow-Bounce Ceramide Cream, 50ml each.

The fragrances go the other way. Six of the eight are 5ml minis, with only Devotion at 20ml, The One Intense at 10ml and the Light Blue Perfume Gel at 30ml giving any real volume. Three doors are accessories, an eyelash curler, two Devotion hair clips and a headband, which carry little value against the price.

=> The full door-by-door breakdown sits in the SPOILER tab.

What the contents are actually worth

Price the full-size pieces at UK rates and the ticket looks defensible, even generous. Two pots of Glow-Bounce Ceramide Cream at £92 each come to £184 on their own. Add the Gemstone Lipstick (around £43), the Everkiss Liquid Lipstick (£40), the Violet Liquid Blush (about £34) and the Nailed It! nail lacquer (£21), and five full-size items already clear £320 before a single fragrance is counted.

Fold in the lip tint, lip plumper, top coat and lip scrub, then the scents, and the box sits worth well over £600. The shortfall against that figure is the fragrance side: those 5ml vials suit a travel bag more than a dressing table. Take the launch price and divide it across the 24 doors, and each lands at roughly £21 a product, steep per door, but honest once the two ceramide creams and the limited-edition lipstick are weighed against it.

My verdict on the Dolce & Gabbana calendar

Eight scents in one box, and a make-up bag you could use from day one. What wins me over is the full-size make-up and the two ceramide creams, real products at real sizes, not teaser sachets. The Emerald Scarlet lipstick you cannot buy anywhere else, and the Glow-Bounce pair alone costs £184 at the counter.

Where it loses me is the fragrance maths and the price. Six of the eight scents are 5ml minis, so the fragrance wardrobe is closer to a set of samples than a shelf of bottles, and this is a lot of money to place on a brand you’ve not worn before. The three accessory doors do nothing to earn their keep at this level.

After weighing door against door, my take is this: ‘the make-up and skincare carry this box, the fragrances are the garnish, and the total still beats the ticket price.’ Buy it to live in D&G beauty for a month, not to collect eight full perfumes. A fragrance lover chasing full bottles will feel short-changed; someone who already reaches for D&G make-up will not.

• Skip it if you wanted full-size fragrance bottles, or if this much on an untried brand feels like a leap.
• It’s for you if you already love D&G make-up and want the full-size line, the limited lipstick and two ceramide creams in one go.

The version available

• Dolce & Gabbana Advent Calendar, 24 doors

Dolce & Gabbana discount code and delivery

• Discount code: none available right now.
• Delivery: as set by Notino at checkout.

The spirit of Dolce & Gabbana

Founded in Milan in 1985 by Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, the house built its name on a Mediterranean fantasy of Sicilian sun, lace and black-and-white glamour. Beauty came later, and Light Blue, launched in 2001, is still the scent most people picture when they hear the name. The line has since grown into make-up and skincare, which is exactly why a calendar of this spread is now possible.

That history is the point of the box. It gathers the fragrance heritage and the newer colour and skincare ranges into one 24-door run, so it works as a tour of where D&G beauty has been and where it is heading, not a single-category sampler.

Where to buy and release details

The Dolce & Gabbana Advent Calendar is stocked at Notino. No discount code is live right now. Compare the best offers at the top of this page.

• Merchant: Notino
• Doors: 24 doors, 24 products
• Discount code: none at the time of writing