** UPDATE March 2022 **
all Chanel batchcodes decrypted
(including the "american", and rare letters-and-numbers codes)
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how to decode the main ("French")
4-number batchcode only.
Chanel is one of the most difficult houses to decypher, when you try to "date a perfume".
This is due to the fact that the batch code is based on 4 numbers which apparently have no reference point.
Actually, Chanel adopts a method that is based on the passing of the months, without any reference to the year.
You start with 00, get to 99, and then start all over again, so in these 99 months, just over 8 years have passed.
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