Raiders of the Lost Scent: How to recognize ROCHAS perfumes.

Famous French fashion designer Marcel Rochas established his fashion house in 1925, followed by his own Perfume factory a few years later. His first perfumes were Air Jeune, Audace and Avenue Matignon (1936), then his most famous scent arrived: "Femme", created by Edmond Roudnitska, launched in 1944.

Then:
"MOUSSELINE" (1946),
"LA ROSE" (1949)
"MOUSTACHE"(1949)
"MADAME ROCHAS" (1960, original formula)
"MONSIEUR ROCHAS" (1969)
"EAU de ROCHAS" (1970)
"AUDACE" (1973, new formula)
"MYSTERE" (1978)
"MACASSAR" (1980)
"LUMIERE" (1984, original formula)
"BYZANCE" (1987)
"MADAME ROCHAS" (1989, new formula)
"FEMME" (1989, new formula)
"GLOBE" (1990)
"EAU de ROCHAS pour HOMME" (1993)
"TOCADE" (1994, original formula)
"BYZANTINE" (1995)
"FLEUR D'EAU" (1996)
"TOCADILLY" (1997)
"ALCHIMIE" (1998)
"ROCHAS MAN" (1999)
"LUMIERE" (2000, new formula)
"AQUAMAN" (2001)
"ABSOLU" (2002)
"AQUAWOMAN" (2002)
"LUI" (2003)
"POUPEE" (2004)
"REFLETS D'EAU" (2005)
"DESIR de ROCHAS" (2007)
"SOLEIL de ROCHAS" (2008)
"EAU SENSUELLE" (2009)
"EAU FRAICHE" (2010)
"FEMME" (2013, third formula)
"MADAME ROCHAS" (2013, third formula)
"TOCADE" (2013, new formula)

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HOW TO RECOGNIZE
ROCHAS PERFUMES

(please note: this is a free, personal interpretation, without any official support)
First of all, remember the "generic clues":
Since 1979: EMB code on the box of all french perfumes
Since 1990: Barcode on the box
Since 1992: GreenDot on the box
Since 2005: "long list of ingredients" on the box of all european perfumes.

Then, keep in mind the Address on the box:
before 2007: "33, Rue Francois 1er, Paris"
after 2007: "17 Rue de Miromesnil, Paris"

And now the Batch Codes:
1980-1994:
3 digits batch code (last number indicates "the year")

1995-2005:
4 (or more) digits: first two numbers indicates the production facility (01,02,03,04,05);
the second-to-last number indicates the month;
and the last number indicates the year)

IMPORTANT: the second-to-last number indicates the month, so you find 1= January, 2= February 3=March, etc ..... and 9 = September and finally 0 = October.
Then letters "N" for November and "D" for December.

Example: "0123" = 01 is "facility code", 2 is "February", 3 is "year 2003".
Example: "0598" = 05 is "facility code", 9 is "September", 8 is "year 1998"
Example: "0300" = 03 is facility code, 0 is "October", 0 is "Year 2000"
Example: "01N3" = 01 is facility code, N is "November", 3 is "Year 2003"
Example: "02D1" = 02 is facility code, D is "December", 1 is "year 2001"
(Please note a few numbers and letters could occur at the start/end of the batch code: you should able to "detect" the importnt digits, discarding the useless ones)

since 2006 :
classic 4-digits "Procter&Gamble" batch code (first number indicates the year, following three are the day of the year: 000 to 365)
Example: 7001 = 2007, January 1st.
Example: 9365 = 2009, December 31st.

Monsieur Rochas
upper box without EMB code ( before 1979 )
lower box with EMB code ( after 1979 )

from Ebay, "Femme"
with EMB code (= after 1980), and without barcode (= before 1990)
batch 054 : last digit indicates the year, so
= year 1984