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Holiday is all about tradition, and each year Estée Lauder unveils a stunning, limited-edition collection of solid perfume and powder compacts that stirs the imagination and enchants collectors around the world and this year is no different! This season’s featured fragrances include Estée Lauder Beautiful, Beyond Paradise, pleasures, Pure White Linen, White Linen, Youth Dew and newcomer, Sensuous. Powder compacts feature the universally wearable Lucidity Pressed Powder and for the first time, Re-Nutriv Intensive Comfort Pressed Powder. I have picked up my favorites to share with you.

First up, the Holiday Solid Perfume compacts!

The Gingerbread Man Holiday Compact contains the Sensous fragrance and is available for $85.00.

The Candy Cane Compact houses Pleasures and is available for $85.00

The Star Compact contains Pure White and is also available for $85.00

The next group of compacts were inspired by the ocean and its riches: its hidden treasures, crystal blue water, the movement of the waves, sunlight dancing off the water’s surface, and the cobblestoned villages along its coastline. This timeless collection has textural effects etched into golden metal, finished off by dazzling CRYSTALLIZED™ - Swarovski Elements:

(From left) Red Sea $45.00 and Golden Swirls $45.00

(Below) The Sea of Pearls compact is so incredibly beautiful, it's available in limited distribution and it costs $115.00 Finally, The Flights of Fancy which are also available in limited distribution are colorful, nature-inspired enamels with a graphic, whimsical pop-art aesthetic:

(From Top) The Crystal Whirlpool available at Bloomingdales for $115.00; Tropical Palms and Wild Poppy both available at Nordstroms for $115.00 each.