JPG Le Male Armure Collector Edition 2005 4.2 oz EDT, Rare VTG Le Male, 35% full

Sprayed upon initial release for several months and then vaulted in a cool, dark fragrance cabinet for the last two decades.

Rare juice -- about35 percent remaining. No box, no cellophane.

Batch code beginning in M -- MEH0 1X -- indicates production in 2005.

This fragrance, being literally two decades old, is as close to the original Francis Kurkdjian formula as you're ever likely to find (he first formulated the scent in 1995).

Free of recent reformulations and nothing like the overly sweet flankers produced today. This is the original Le Male -- preserved, robust, ingenious.

What makes Le Male Armure so rare as a collector's edition is a plastic coat of armor composed of only two pieces -- a front side and back -- that the bottlers in France received from a factory in China and then mounted outside the regular glass Le Male bottle to create a true suit of armor. The armor is sculptural, artistic, breathtakingly curvaceous...