Pan This handmade fragrance, redolent of goat hair charged with aromatic herbs, cedar, beeswax and musk seed, lavender and hay, with white lotus to really bring it on home, is wild with intense uplift and appealing strength. It's like standing by an animal wreathed with flowers, warmed by a bonfire of freshly sawn fragrant wood and hay.

It brings to my mind a phrase from "The Fugitive Kind" as spoken by Joanne Woodward's character (a super-pale blond bad girl who scares everyone with both her fast driving and her sex drive) when she first sees a young Marlon Brando in his signature snakeskin jacket: "There's STILL something WILD in this country".

from "IndiePerfumes" blog, review by Lucy

Pan has a musky inviting smell, a bit winey, animalic enough to rival Musks Kublai-Khan maybe, yet it is not difficult to wear. I suspect the actual musky smell comes from the natural Hibiscus abelmoschus seed , an ingredient I have read is much used by natural perfumers both for its great musky olfactory aspect but also its fixative powers, making perfumes last on the skin as an alternative to synthetic musks that are abundant in more mainstream perfumes. The fanning out of good and probably aged sweet patchouli oil, which is a predominent note throughout, gives an earthy powdery quality that furthers the herbal theme and consolidates it in our conscience for good. The remnants on skin are lingering seductively.

from Helg on the "Perfume Shrine" blog.

Fairchild has a lively citrusy-peppery opening. Exuberant is the word that comes to mind. It quickly settles into a slightly mellower character, with the gingery galangal emerging to give a mild, full-bodied warmth. Then the flowers begin blooming. The champaca comes to fore, then fades back to let the jasmine command attention, then takes the lead again. This dance goes on for a while, and creates a lot of drama in the heart of the scent. The jasmine has that funky/pretty split personality, both troubling and alluring. The citrus lingers in the background, but morphs into a warmer, more identifiably orange note.

The flowers eventually fade and give way to a gentle green mossiness, and then a wonderful ocean note appears. After a few hours on the skin Fairchild is a singular floral/mossy/marine scent—and by marine I most definitely don’t mean that sterile, brain-numbing wateriness found in most commercial “aquatic” frags. This is a true marine note, with the slight saltiness and pungency of the ocean. The total effect is comforting and calming—a remarkable transition from that nose-grabber of an opening.

from Maria on Perfume of Life forum

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