Advent calendars are a lovely concept. You get a little present every day, usually for a month or so, in the countdown to a special date (Christmas mostely). Chocolate is a fairly popular product you find in advent calendars. But there are also ones with various beauty products, jewelry, or little bottles of different drinks or spirits like rum, beer or our personal favorite, wine. Here is a top 10 of the most exciting advent calendars you can find nowadays.
1. TUBES Wine Advent Calendar
Wine works great as a gift, especially when it comes in several small bottles with different wines in them. That’s why TUBES created this wine calendar. A wine calendar is not only perfect for the holidays, but also for lots of other special occasions. Throughout the year, there are multiple limited edition wine calendars from TUBES. They contain 12 or 24 different wines. There are ready made ones, but you can also have them custom made to sample your wine portfolio.
2. Rituals
Cosmetics brand Rituals usually goes the extra mile when it comes to their advent calendars. Last year they had The Ritual of Advent Village for the holidays, which was pretty spectacular. The products came in different little houses that you could use to build a Christmas village, complete with little lights! It makes you wonder what they come up with this year.
3. The Body Shop
The Body Shop is not only attractive to everyone who is environmentally conscious and animal friendly, but also for everyone else. Around the holidays they have a variety of advent calendars with different beauty products, form their famous body butters to skin-friendly make up.
4. Lush
When it comes to environmental consciousness, Lush is even a few steps ahead of The Body Shop. Most of their products come in bars, so without packaging. This makes the stores smell wonderful, and also the streets where the stores are located. So, if you’re looking for an advent calendar with all natural products like shower gel, massage bars, face masks, shampoo bars and so on, Lush is the place to be.
5. Charlotte Tilbury
For fans of luxury cosmetics brand, Charlotte Tilbury advent calendars are a dream come true. They come in the form of a fancy, sparkly box filled with various beauty products, from skin care to make-up in full size or travel size.
6. Whiskies of the Galaxy advent calendar
The whiskey club website Flaviar releases a yearly Whiskies of the Galaxy advent calendar. For this, they select the 24 best whiskies in all the Galaxy. They are from various brands, from real ‘whiskey countries’, like America, Scotland, Ireland, Japan and Israel. With the calendar comes a Glencairn glass and a flavor wheel as a guide for an authentic tasting experience.
7. BrewDog advent calendar
Another great drink-based advent calendar, but this one is for beer fanatics. Originated in Scotland, this beer brand brews CO2-negative beers for every taste. From IPA’s to lagers, imperial stouts and sours. They like to experiment with ingredients, which results in beers with exciting names like Tony’s Hopolonely (indeed a cooperation with Tony’s Chocolonely) and Layercake (marshmallow, chocolate, vanilla). In this advent calendar you get to taste 24 different ones.
8. Barber Pro 12 Days of Grooming Essentials Advent Calendar
This one is for tough men who secretly love to pamper themselves with face masks and eye creams. By the name you might think there is a bunch of beard-related stuff in this advent calendar, but this is not necessarily the case. Non-bearded men can also knock themselves out with these 12 “ultimate grooming essentials for men”.
9. Yankee Candle Christmas Collection Advent Book
A scented candle for every day of the dark December month. Well, almost. There are 24 little candles inside this advent calendar, to make the days until Christmas a bit warmer and brighter.
10. Yogi Tea Advent Calendar
Perfect for tea lovers: the Yogi Tea Advent Calendar with 24 different teas to try. Yogi Tea is 100% organic, based on ayurvedic recipes and contain no artificial flavors. A nice and healthy alternative for chocolates, so to say.