William Morris Advent Calendar

William Morris Advent Calendar 2026: a new Oak & Willow box and nine fragrances behind 24 doors

The William Morris Advent Calendar 2026 arrives in a brand-new Oak & Willow design, a shift away from last year’s Sunflower Swan. Squirrels, oak leaves, willow and hazelnuts run across a box that opens like a hardback book in three sections, the pattern lifted from a rare embroidery by May Morris. Behind the 24 doors sit 24 vegan bath and body treats, every one travel size, and this is the big change for 2026: the range now carries nine signature fragrances where the previous edition worked with a handful.

Those scents come from the Golden Lily, The Modern Homemaker and the award-winning Beautiful Sleep collections: Festive Clementine & Clove, Sunlit Tomato, Iceland 1871, Purple Basil, Beautiful Sleep, Green Davana, Citronella Grass, Patchouli & Red Berry, and Bergamot & Vetiver. It is a bath and body calendar first and last, with no make-up and no fragrance bottle to speak of, so you know exactly what you are getting into.

The Morris & Co signature: heritage prints, vegan formulas

Morris & Co sits under the William Morris At Home licence, and the thread that ties this luxury advent calendar together is the archive it draws from. Every motif on the box and the inner trays comes from the William Morris Gallery, and each purchase supports the gallery’s non-profit work. The formulas stay vegan and cruelty-free throughout, and the packaging is plastic-free wood-pulp board printed with plant-based inks. That consistency is the point of the range: the pattern you admire on the lid is the same one the brand licenses to raise money for the archive it came from.

What is inside the William Morris beauty advent calendar?

Twenty-four treats, split across seven product types, with the balance tilted firmly towards hand care. You get 7 hand creams (15ml) plus a further single 30ml hand cream, 4 hand & body washes (30ml), 4 bath salts (40g), 3 bath foams (30ml), 3 bath fizzers (10g), one 15ml body cream and one 10ml pulse point oil. Every item is a travel size: there is no full-size product in the box, which is the honest trade-off of the format. Spread across nine fragrances, it works better as a scent-sampler than as a stock-up of any single favourite.

Morris & Co does not publish a total content value for the 2026 edition, so I am not going to put a figure on it that I cannot back up. What I can give you is the per-door maths: take the £45 launch price and divide it by the 24 treats, and each one lands at roughly £1.88. That is fair for travel-size bath and body from a licensed heritage range, as long as you are buying the fragrance tour and not expecting full sizes.

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Oak & Willow vs Sunflower Swan: what has changed this year

The clearest change is the artwork. The 2026 box drops the Sunflower Swan print for Oak & Willow, taken from a May Morris embroidery rather than a William Morris wallpaper, so it reads a little quieter and more wintry. The book-style opening and the vegan bath and body spirit carry over unchanged.

The substance change is the jump to nine signature fragrances, well up on the previous edition’s shorter line-up. For anyone who found last year’s calendar repetitive across its doors, that is the single most useful difference: more scents to move through, fewer repeats of the same note.

My view on the William Morris Advent Calendar 2026

What wins me over first is the honesty of the concept. This is a bath and body calendar that behaves like one: 24 treats, nine scents, no padding, no gimmick product thrown in to inflate the door count. The Oak & Willow box is genuinely nice to look at, and the fact that it keeps a gallery running is a better story than most heritage licences manage.

Where it asks something of you is the format. Everything is travel size, and if you were hoping for a full-size hand cream or a proper bottle of anything, you will not find it here. The hand-care lean is also real: eight of the 24 doors are hand creams of one size or another, so bath lovers get a touch less than the name might suggest.

Put plainly, as I would to a friend eyeing it up: ‘it’s a scent tour, not a bathroom restock‘. Buy it to work through nine Morris & Co fragrances over December and keep a handsome box afterwards, and it delivers. Buy it expecting value-by-volume and you will do the per-door sum and feel a little short. Those who like the heritage-print angle, and don’t mind minis, are the ones who will keep this on the shelf.

Where to buy the William Morris Advent Calendar 2026

This beauty advent calendar is sold at a handful of UK stockists. Compare the live offers at the top of this page before you buy, since prices move through the season.

• Allbeauty: buy at Allbeauty
• Amazon: buy at Amazon
• John Lewis: buy at John Lewis

William Morris promo code

Allbeauty already lists the calendar at £40.50 rather than its £45 RRP, and there is a code worth knowing about on top of that. The code SECRET takes a further 15% off, but it is capped at the first 500 uses, so it is first-come, first-served. Enter it at checkout rather than hunting for a basket threshold. No other voucher is confirmed at the other stockists at the time of writing.