The Estée Lauder Companies
Jo Malone London batch code checker
Jo Malone London bottles carry the standard Estée Lauder three-character code, printed rather than etched. Because Jo Malone colognes sit at a lower concentration than most eaux de parfum, their age is worth knowing: a lighter cologne shows its years faster than a dense oriental does.
Where Jo Malone London prints the code
Printed on the base of the bottle and repeated on the underside of the cream-coloured box.
What the characters mean
Three characters: product-line character, month (1–9, then A, B, C for October–December), then the last digit of the year.
Worked example
A72
reads as July 2022
Jo Malone London batch code questions
Where do I find the batch code on a Jo Malone cologne?
Turn the bottle over — the code is printed directly on the glass base in small type, and the same code appears on the underside of the box. On the smaller travel sprays it can be very faint, so it helps to photograph it and zoom in rather than read it by eye.
Do Jo Malone colognes go off faster than eau de parfum?
They tend to show age sooner. Jo Malone colognes are built around bright citrus and light florals at a modest concentration, and those are exactly the materials that fade first. That does not make an older bottle unusable, but a fresher batch of something like Lime Basil & Mandarin is noticeably more vivid in the opening.
My Jo Malone code has four characters — is that wrong?
No. Estée Lauder codes sometimes carry a fourth character that identifies the filling line or a packaging variant rather than the date. The first three characters are the ones that encode line, month and year, so a longer code decodes the same way.
Same scheme, other houses
These brands sit under The Estée Lauder Companies and stamp their bottles the same way, so if you can read one you can read them all.
Try it before you commit
Checking a batch code is usually a way of asking whether a bottle is worth the money. A Jo Malone London decant answers that on your own skin, poured from a bottle whose source we log — no marketplace gamble, no full-bottle regret.