I confess
For a three legger I know perfum ....I’m a member of basenotes
I love chypre style scents much more than cloying fruit crap
Chypre and real oak moss is musty like a woman’s revved up wet scent
I love it....my on switch smells it
For the record.....antique women’s scents are a hit and a miss....some are not good like Guerlain Jicky
People could extract then like now
I have to admit my ignorance. I used to use Bay Rum aftershave until my girlfriend at the time told me I smelled like a French whorehouse. Nothing since then.
You have a unique voice in your writing, and I know it is you in the first few lines.
The lack of punctuation, perhaps?
I posit it is the stream-of-consciousness tone in the body.
Whatever it is, please don’t stop.