Animale for Men Animale 1993 Eau de Toilette

A sample of this fragrance leaves me puzzled. I've never consciously had "Animale for Men" in front of my nose. And yet, it feels very familiar to me. A fougère in a decent, lavender-spicy-coniferous manner with a mossy base, good longevity and sillage.
I keep bringing my nose to my wrist, savoring the scent, its beautiful aromas, and I have a fragment of lost memories in my mind that I just can't pinpoint. Somewhere in the back of my head, something wants to push forward, but a kind of barrier sends the budding thought back into oblivion. Forcing it forward has no use, because the more I "want," the stricter the "censorship."
Is it the juniper berries peeking around the corner that remind me of a place where a lot of juniper grows? Or is it the combination of lavender with geranium that has appeared similarly somewhere before? Or the fine leather with earthy-mossy vetiver in the base?
A puzzling fragrance that I quite like, yet it continually makes me ponder without invitation. Resistance is currently futile, as "reason is taking a break" here at the moment....
Strange, but that's how I experience it.....