In your constructor, you bless a hash into the current class, storing it in $this. Then, you tie the dereferenced hash into the current class.

I think that's double-blessing. Good for the pious, but tricky for programs. Here's my suggestion: 

sub new {
    my $proto = shift;
    my $class = ref ($proto) || $proto;
    my %this;
    return tie(%this, $class);
}

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Let's make things a little more explicit by tieing a hash blessed into a different class. Here's the new class and a slightly different constructor: 
package FunClass;
sub new {
    my $class = shift;
    my $self = {};
    bless($self, $class);
}

sub DESTROY {
    my $self = shift;
    print "Destroying $self!\n";
}

sub new {
    my $proto = shift;
    my $class = ref ($proto) || $proto;
    my $this = FunClass->new();
    tie %{$this}, $class;
    return $this;
}

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And the results? 
Destroying FunClass=HASH(0x80f173c)!
Calling DESTROY by SillyClass=HASH(0x80f600c)

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In reply to Re: DESTROY for tied classes by chromatic
in thread DESTROY for tied classes by MeowChow

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