True to his sense of humor and offbeat style, Gaultier has hijacked an old-fashioned object to garb Le Mâle and Le Mâle Terrible.

Can you guess what it is? Give up? Glass flasks! The enfant terrible of French fashion has turned this item into two clever collectibles. The flask is rectangular and cheekily garbed in the scent’s signature French sailor-shirt stripes. The fragrance’s names are engraved on metal dog tags, silver-toned for Le Mâle and bright red for Le Mâle Terrible.

The formulas of both scents are unchanged. Le Mâle sets sail with spicy and woody notes centered around a lavender and vanilla accord. Le Mâle Terrible casts off with bracing and aromatic waves of scent.

Two sexy scents for men who like to head off to conquer new horizons. Jean Paul Gaultier leads you, ‘from one adventure to the next, from one port of call to the next,’ with these two limited editions of Le Mâle and Le Mâle Terrible. The bottles are a wink to the era when women would hide them in their petticoats when they ‘came on board to see the sailors.’

If either or both of these limited editions tempts you, boarding starts on 27 February, 2012.

What do you think about this new edition: innovation or gadget?