Initial Boucheron 2000 Eau de Parfum

This perfume truly evokes the most bizarre associations in me! It certainly doesn’t come across as feminine or even boring on me,
Right after spraying: Spicy, cinnamon-like, like warm wood! It reminds me a little of the infusion in a (classic) sauna with wooden beams - as I knew them from my youth. Very pleasant!
But shortly after: something citrusy, but no longer really fresh hits my nose. Like outdated effervescent tablets or - I can hardly bring myself to write this! - scouring powder! Could this be a perfume under the 50% mark? But luckily, this unpleasant phase doesn’t last too long.
Then comes a phase where the comment from Medusa ignites my imagination: "...commode from the Gründerzeit...old villa, creaking floorboards..."
In the village of my childhood, there was an old villa from the Gründerzeit in the middle of a huge park-like garden - in spring full of wildflowers, later the nettles grew as tall as a man. Because of the unresolved question of inheritance, no one took care of the beautiful old building; it was simply left to decay. Nevertheless, it radiated a morbid beauty! For us children, it was primarily an adventure playground! We called the villa the "haunted castle" and went on "expeditions" inside. Sometimes dubious figures would spend the night there, which made the house even creepier. Over time, the villa fell more and more into disrepair; you could see through the holes in the ceilings over three floors - it was certainly not safe to wander around there! Yet nothing ever happened to us. A few years after I moved away with my parents, the villa was finally demolished. What a shame!

Initially, it really has something from a bygone era, almost slightly morbid, perhaps due to the patchouli.
A spicy-warm pleasant note lingers on my skin, even after a hot bath.

Now I wonder: how to rate this? The "scouring powder phase" was really not enjoyable! It will hardly become a favorite scent. But the fragrance at least threw me into a whirlpool and recalled old memories. And I find the long-lasting base quite pleasant. Therefore, 70%.