The Best Francophile Advent Calendars for 2025
The holiday season is just around the corner. Each year, I round up the best advent calendars in a post. The idea is to focus on Francophile advent calendars for 2025 with the theme of the blog, of course, a few other ones made it into the mix with beauty, sweet treats, and fun surprises to countdown to Christmas eve. We don’t celebrate Christmas in our house, but I do love the idea of a countdown for the festive season. Our wedding anniversary is right around the holidays so it does make it fun to celebrate the whole month of December.
The Best Francophile Advent Calendars for 2025
1. Bonne and Filou $70 Advent calendar for dogs. Each morning is a treat for your best friend. Henri would love this one.
2. Spice advent calendar $55. 24 days of spices for the foodie.
3. City Hotel Advent Calendar $169. I love the look of this advent calendar. Pick your own theme to fill this calendar. Choose a different theme each year or keep it the same. This might be my new favorite!
4. Beauty Advent Calendar Anthropologie $98 24 days of beauty.
5. Williams Sonoma Baking Advent Calendar. $80 24 days of cookies. Each day is filled with a baking surprise.
6. Williams Sonoma Chuck Luxury Advent Calendar $350. A splurge advent calendar filled with spices, jams, seasonings and ornaments.
7. Papier Advent Calendar $175 24 days of desk delights from pens to stickers. Papier is a favorite brand for stationary and paper goods.
8. L’Occitane Advent Calendar $210 Explore a world of beauty filled with haircare, oils, and creams from L’Occitane.
9. Manucurist Advent Calendar $139 on sale. 24 days of glitter with full size products from Manucurist.
10. Diptyque Advent $495. Always on my wish list and I haven’t gotten it yet. Filled with candles and fragrances, 25 days of Diptyque Paris.
11. Magical Night Advent Calendar. $24 a minimalist take from Anthropologie.
12. New Yorker Advent Calendar $200. Each day is a different New Yorker puzzle. 24 days of puzzles.
13. Moulin Roty Little School of Dance $65. This advent calendar comes with a story lamp and 23 disks to project. Each day a different adventure to countdown to Christmas.
14. Palais des Thés Advent Calendar $40. This is one of my favorite tea brands from Paris and this advent calendar is reasonably priced under $50 making it a great gift idea too.
15. Maxim’s de Paris $54 24 days of Paris chocolates.
16. Typology Advent Calendar $260. This calendar is bound to sell out before December 1st. Filled with 13 full size products from Typology, this Paris based brand has a cult following thanks to social media.
17. Angelina Paris Advent Calendar $69 each day reveals a chocolate or sweet treat from the famous Angelina Paris.
18. Mariage Frères Advent. $100 Available through POSH. Coming soon! I purchased one to give away.
Comment at the end of this post and tell me what holiday tradition you are most looking forward to. Winner will be announced October 26th. Make sure to include your email to enter. *US readers only due to increased shipping fees abroad.
19. 12 days of puzzles from Anthropologie. $25 88 piece mini puzzles to keep you busy until Christmas.
20. Triomphe Advent Calendar $100 This advent calendar was inspired by the Place d’Etoile and is a work of art. It is filled with delicious Maison du Chocolat limited edition praline bon bon. This is one of my favorites each year.
21. Bloomingdales 25 Days of Beauty $325 full of beauty items from various brands. For the beauty junkie that loves a good variety to try.
22. Sisley Paris Advent Calendar $680. For the Sisley lover, this is a splurge filled with the best beauty and skincare from Sisley Paris. Including some fantastic full size items.
23. Bonne Maman $55 This advent calendar is filled with adorable jam and honey pots with familiar and wild flavors. Every morning, delight your toast with something different. I ordered this for my niece and nephews, and they loved it.
Don’t miss other holiday themed post including the Francophile ornaments for your tree!
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Turning on the Christmas tree at dusk or even earlier on a cloudy December day.
I’m so excited for all the Christmas fun — decorating the house, watching Rudolph, Elf, and all the Hallmark movies, and getting ready for Christmas dinner with my family. This year, I’m really hoping to take my mom to see the Rockettes for their 100th anniversary show. It’ll be such a special time and bring back so many sweet childhood memories!
Thank you for doing such a lovely giveaway!
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Is the MariageFrere calendar out yet?
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I’m looking forward to decorating gingerbread cookies with my daughter this holiday season. Merci for this roundup and for the giveaway!
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Baking Christmas cookies with my niece and nephew.
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I love shopping with my sisters!
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Love, love love wrapping gifts.
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Don’t forget Aldi’s advent calendars. They have a fun cheese one and a higher end chocolate one (still under $20) that my husband who is a chocolate snob likes!
I’m looking forward to Carol singing. The older I get the more emotional it makes me.
Im most looking forward to driving around looking at christmas light displays. Gather in our truck with matching pajamas, popcorn, cookies and hot chocolate.
Love the advent calendars. I’ve always loved advent calendars, reminds me of my childhood
Congratulations, Michele! You are the winner of the advent calendar. I will email you for your shipping address! xo
My son moved out of state this year so I am most looking forward to him coming home and remembering past Christmas traditions together. I discovered Mariage Freres tea during a recent trip to Paris because of your recommendations!
Several of the calendars are calling to me. This will be the first year I have purchased an Advent Calendar, so am looking forward to each surprise, as it is revealed to me daily.
My favorite holiday tradition is baking cookies. I enjoy giving them to neighbors and friends, and seeing the look of delight each tray produces. I feel fortunate to have the skills to bake; it is something I can do to bring joy to others during the holidays.
Love a good advent calendar line up!!
Ok my favorite tradition is my Supper Club. There 14 of us who host a dinner party every month, and we’ve never missed in 4 years. My sister and I host the Christmas party every year and we always do a different theme. The first year was a traditional Christmas dinner, the 2nd year was a black tie optional dinner with a gorgeous dark moody tablespace, year 3 was “Twas the Brunch Before Christmas” and everyone brought their kids, we wore holiday pajamas and watched holiday movies, last year was “A few of my Favorite things” and everyone brought their favorite dish to share and we hung pictures of all our favorite people and memories from garland a ribbons.
I love advent calendars — it’s a reminder to celebrate every day — and when something isn’t quite right for me, fun to share! One of my fave holiday traditions.
Im looking forward to baking!
Love your recommendations and Sunday emails! ❤️
I absolutely love the Christmas Tree every year, and the way the house smells of freshly baked treats!
We are looking forward to travelling to Stowe, VT this Christmas and eating together at the famous Von Trapp Family Lodge while there. If we are lucky, we will hike the Von Trapp grounds either in boots, or perhaps in snow shoes.
Bonjour!
My favorite holiday tradition besides baking..is going to church.It is a quiet introspective time to be still and reflect on life,blessings and hope!
Thankyou for writing your newsletters.I look forward to reading them.
Sincerely,Shannon