Panda Edition 2017

I like the opening of Panda. On me it's a modern fruity-floral that's complex and well-blended. The apple is there but doesn't dominate, it mixes well with the florals. The ozone/water seems to bring out the ripeness of the fruit and the more heady qualities of the florals. As the opening progresses, there's a hint of something underneath that starts out almost spicy, but then evolves into an animalic/earthy edge. As Panda progresses the excellent amber heartnotes begin to emerge, and I get a slight soapiness. There's something familiar about this amber accord, perhaps I've encountered it in a Guerlain? I enjoy the progression of this fragrance, it gives me plenty to think about. After a few hours I start getting a mossy edge to this, and my favorite point in this perfume is when the amber fades and the oakmoss comes forward so there's a balance of the two. I agree with the reviewer who said this is more a chypre than an oriental, a modern, fruity-floral chypre without the powdery notes that often make chypres seem so vintage. Eventually the moss is what lingers through to the next day. Something about my skin amplifies oakmoss, and here I find it addictive. I spritz Panda before bed just so I can wake up to a mossy dreamland. The base accords of this perfume are among the most enjoyable in my collection. I got the full set of Zoologist samples, and Victor included a handwritten note plus a bonus sample of the newest release, the lovely tuberose-marine Seahorse. The set worked well for me - some of the options that I thought were going to be great didn't work at all, and others that I never would have gravitated to have become favorites. My favorites in the line are Panda and Sloth. Both are wearable yet unique, modern and truly evocative of the story that goes with them. Honorable mentions go to Beaver (leather jacket left at the Lake House), Bat (dark and fruity), Rhinoceros (gorgeous room-filling tobacco), and Nightingale (delicate Japanese chypre).

My Spring 2024 mainstay for sure. I'm revisiting most Zoologist perfumes because over 3 years, my nose has involved after exploring, collecting and wearing so many perfumes. I remember Panda being one of the ones I liked back then but it was that, a "like", not love. Fast-forward 3 years, this is fantastic. Bright, green, floral and uplifting. Perfect for Spring and I'm sure it'll do great in cooler Summer days and the first warmer days of Fall. Surprising, this has a lot of staying power. I get a good 4-5 hours where I catch frequent whiffs of it when I move and then it sticks closer to skin a good 8+ hours. I've seen some describe this as "wet", I can kind of understand that. I'd say Panda isn't so "wet" to me (Dragonfly is, and Bat too but for different reasons). Panda is rather very green. The tea note is very present here. The opening is very fresh and while there's the sweetness of apple here that might remind of YSL Y, the tea and flowers give it a fizzy brightness that might be a bit off-putting to some guys. I personally love that about it. The tea and magnolia is beautiful. The tea note sticks around and turns greener with bamboo as it dries down. Towards the end, it gets slightly smoky and woodier but although civet is listed in the notes, it never sticks out and plays more of a support role here. I'm very fond of this one. You won't offend many people with this, it's very clean and fresh. There's a minority of people (including my own mother, haha) that might get fixed on the earthy side and find it "weird" and "black soil"-like (to paraphrase her) but in general, people tend to enjoy this one around me.

It’s so much harder to do a review of a perfume I love than ones I’m either meh about or dislike because I’m challenged to actually pick apart why I love it. Usually I just put it in because I know I love it and rock it on a day where I don’t want to think about what I’m wearing. So I love Panda (new formulation - found the old one less complex with lots of bamboo and more green). I’m wearing it today on the first day of spring when the weather actually feels like spring. Immediate it is green, with some white flowers peaking in and a creamy animalic base. It’s super well blended so I have to go in eyes closed for another sniff to get the resinous tree sap and wet earth that’s reminiscent of Bat from this house. To me it’s fresh without having any citrus or aquatic notes in it, which is how most fresh perfumes achieve that. The freshness might come from the apple and tea, but I can’t pick up those notes on their own. This lasts all day on me! It’s an extrait de parfum which is the more concentrated than eau de parfum. Even strong rose/Oud perfumes often disappear on me so I appreciate a fresh scent that I don’t have to reapply. It’s by far my favourite Zoologist because not only is it interesting, but it’s actually very wearable. I don’t recommend perfumes in my reviews because it’s such a personal item and your skin chemistry makes a huge difference. So while I love this, it doesn’t mean you will too, but I can’t resist saying if you want a fresh green earthy perfume with a zing, pick up a tester!

If you want to get a feel of what this smells like at a fraction of the price, try Zara's Cool Heighs, since they both share that strong intensive apple note in their composition, that stays throughout their longevity. However, this one right here uses that accord to its most elegant capabilities, giving you a comforting sweet smell, without being nauseating at all, something which Zara's one could end up being. Sillage in this is pretty good, and I can still smell this on me a couple of hours with no effort from my side. It is more feminine than masculine, and a perfect blend of sweet and green. Overall performance is fantastic (+8 hours). For some reason I did not like it that much at first, and the reason may be that I smelled a lot of Zoologist perfumes at once and did not really leave room for this to stand out on his own, but I'm glad I did, since this is just magnificent. It's one of the few Zoologist perfumes, maybe along with Macaque, that doesn't have a strong resemblance to the chosen animal. This is the last thing I picture when I think of how panda's habitat may smell like. To me this smells like the wardrobe of a really famous celebrity from the 50s. 7/10.

I liked the original Panda, but this reformulation is also brilliant. This may well be the most tenacious scent that I have ever worn: I sprayed this on at 8:30am and, 15 hours later, it’s still there - faint, but noticeable. I don’t know why Panda is classified as ‘Oriental Floral’ because, to my nose, it’s predominantly green-musky. It’s completely unisex: the opening still contains that earthy-civet scent that smelled like panda’s poop in the original version, but it quickly subsides and the rest of the exposition is dominated by the sour green apple (fortunately it smells nothing like DKNY!) This is followed by an interplay of green, woody and fruity notes: aside from apple, soil and civet I can also smell dirty patchouli, something leafy, some powdery florals, mostly osmanthus, with a fresh-ozonic overlay. If you love this type of green-musky unisex fragrances, do invest in this beauty, because it is incredibly long lasting and leaves a beautiful trail.

I love Panda 2017, I just wish it wasn't so expensive ! £165 for 60ml bottle! If it was closer to £100 for 60ml bottle then I would be happy wearing this everyday. I get some earthy green, fruits mixed in with a tropical vibe, just lifts up my mood. The bottle is so cool looking with the amazing panda artwork, I just need to find a replacement bottle at a reasonable price. Picture a world with no pollution or humans damaging the planet, pandas just sitting in a jungle surrounding by bamboo and fruits . EDIT UPDATE Price here in the UK has increased to £175 for 60ml bottle, yes its a nice pleasant scent but its way overpriced . Let me do the calculations :- 175÷60 = £2.91 per ml so a standard 100ml bottle of this stuff would be a mind blowing £291 . I would say its fair market value is half this price at £145 for 100ml . For this reason, I can't possibly recommend buying this fragrance.

If I could handle the first 10 minutes this would be one of my favourite perfumes... An oriental apple, so rich, fresh and beautiful. Unlike anything I have tryed before. I adore it. Not the usual green fruit mix... Unfortunately it opens up with quite a bit of soil wich on my skin is so prominent that simply puts me off. It's the first note that hits my nose before the rest starts playing. More testing required. Maybe in warmer weather it could work on me. If you like earth, soil and a bit of greenish dampness than you could love it from the start. In any case it is something worth exploring. Great projection for the first couple of hours, than becomes subtler, but still demands attention. Moderate longevity. Definitely unisex. I imagine this works easier on man thou. Tested from an original samole bought directly from Zoologist.

First blast of sweet light fresh wet greens, like springtime in a bottle. I imagine a cool foggy morning in a bamboo forest in China. There is a darker ticklish earthy element that keeps the crisp airy green from floating away. To my nose, the sweetness comes from a strange fruity floral combination.. it's hard to define exactly which fruit and flower. An all-around sweetness I suppose but this is the far from generic. Lovely! The projection isn't too far from skin level; hopefully the performance isn't as ethereal as it smells. Unisex but leans feminine and best for spring and warmer weather. 6+ hours later: On my skin, this scent did not stick at all and hopefully it's just bc my skin was dry. The sweet green is very faintly there and was mostly gone by the 3rd hour.

Panda opens with a juicy green apple and crushed leaves (though I don't get tea, which is listed), with pretty osmanthus and white flowers a few minutes later. That little civet fellow starts to come out and I've grown to like him since I started sampling Zoologist. Earth! I love the earth, and so does the roly-poly panda. Sandalwood and musk add depth, softness and warmth. I don't pick up much patchouli, amber or vanilla, but maybe I don't need to! I honestly expected bamboo, even though it's not a listed note, and I see in a couple of reviews that the first version did have it. Wonder why it was taken out. Well, no need to be so literal. Panda is pure nature and that's a good thing! Panda is long lasting and sillage is moderate.

Panda 2017 is amazing! A wonderful, powerful and long-lasting green, tart, fresh, floral & slightly earthy fragrance. The opening is very green and tart, and contains a wet soil note which never disappears (and is never very prominent either, it is perfectly blended). As it develops, the tartness is toned down a bit, and the florals come alive in the middle of the green, wet and soily notes. It is pretty unique: the only perfume I have smelt with some similarities, at least in the opening, is Nishane's Hacivat (although that one doesn't have the soil note). It lasts quite long and projects substantially for at least a couple of hours. Second only to Camel in my Zoologist list, and among my top 20 ever, for sure.

I love my Mr. Panda! Surprised with the negative reviews. It opens with typical soil/earthy/overriped-fruit Zoologist notes but very quickly develops into something similar to Chanel Chance/Coco MDMSL. Coco stage takes about 3-4 hours; it's more complex and 3D than Chanel's one. Then the apple and fresh notes come in and stay on top of Chance notes making this scent very enjoyable. It's clean yet sexy and vibey. I admit that initial spray could be a bit dump but it fades away quickly and leaves you with a very elegant fresh juice. Bonus - it has a subtle chypre aspect in it and it's magnificent. Also longevity is astonishing for a fresh frag.

A delight to wear with each pump of the atomizer. Fresh green apples, wood and earthy notes with a strong a prominent musk. The musk is so good and carries the green apple very nicely., I get almost zero Civet in this, but I can smell something that hints at it. This was a sample which turned to a travel size and then a full bottle. I'm so glad to finally own it. Longevity 10 Projection 8 Quality vs Price 10 Uniqueness 10 (It absolutely does not remind me of any perfume) edit: it borrows the musk accord used in Erba Pura, Le Capital, but it's very muted. I couldnt notice it until I had both perfumes beside each other.

Wet dirt and fresh bamboo, or a garden that has just gotten some rain, but there's also an underlying sweetness - almost smells more pond-esque than Dragonfly does, like actual pond water or algae without waterlily (wonder if they would layer nicely). Updated: That green bamboo and apple really pair so nicely with the dirt, and as it dries down - hours later, it sweetens up to the base, cutting through some of the sharpness but never losing its essence or completely changing from that wet bamboo apple orchard scent. Love it, definitely need a full bottle. Easily my perfect signature scent in hot weather.

This fragrance is so unusual to me. The apple, from the listed notes, is the strongest to me. There's this strange tartness that reminds me of something that I found in most Amouage scents. Am I crazy? Is it an alcohol thing? BUT! My GOSH, I love this so much! It lasts longer than any scent I've ever worn, even through a shower. Despite what people say, I do detect something similar to bamboo. I've not tried the original, but that doesn't mean I'm without right to an opinion about the beauty of this. Don't understand the hatred for this.

I like a lot of perfumes from this house, but this one, while by no means unpleasant, doesn’t work for me. Starts off with a blast of tart, fairly realistic apple, after a few minutes this mingles with a fresh green tea note. There’s a vague greenness underneath - I get the earthiness only a little, there’s a bit of minty-ness possibly from patchouli, but mostly it stays a watery fruity tea perfume. Reminds me more of a shampoo marketed for teenagers than of a tangible place in nature, like the better zoologist perfumes manage to evoke.

Despite the removal of the bamboo, I like this reformulated one. I agree it's a little more wearable than the other Panda, although I liked that one too. I have a sample vial still that I'm using sparingly. I like the fruity/earthy/animalic combo of Panda. Most fruity fragrances and I don't get along very well, but the Zoologist ones seem to work for me. I agree with Casamir that this is sort of reminiscent of Bat, but they don't smell the same. It's much lighter and fresher, like a summer weather version of Bat, if you will. I dig it.

Wow, i love Panda 2017, for me basically its like wearing apple jasmine osmanthus tea. The earthy note keeps the scent vegetal. And it's totally green and refreshing. I've never tried the original formulation of Panda though, so i cannot compare them, but Zoologist is a clever niche brand, they never smell generic at all, Panda included. Though for me its a tea scent, but its nothing like its predecessors. Panda has stellar longevity with medium silage. A compliment getter for sure. It's a love at the first smell for me.

'Panda (2017)' was a love at first sniff for me. It has that artistic touch, but also manages to be very appealing. It's got a great combination of fruity green apple with earthy notes and tea. The earthy notes in this aren't a dry earth; there's a sense of moisture, almost as if the soil has been freshly watered. I never got a chance to smell the original formulation, so I can't compare the two, but this is a great release. For a fresh green fragrance, the performance is outstanding.

Panda 2----2017 Tested from spray sample. This is a "complex" one, IMO. First spritz is strong...then the notes develop on the skin.... I call this "semi-fruity green" type scent...??? I get the apple/tea/floral....and underneath there is earthiness... This goes thru changes on my skin....in a good way.... I actually do whiff a tad of Coco Mad in this.....weirdly...lol....but just for seconds.... I am enjoying this so far !! Unique,,,IMHO. Good...good performance/sillage too.

Panda is a perfume that adapts very well to the Summer heat. It opens with a fruity, green and earthy scent. Very fresh, pleasant and easy to wear. Amazing longevity on my skin, good sillage for the first couple of hours. The projection of the perfume is not beast mode, but it is noticed in bursts that come and go. I like the sweet-earthy combination. Panda is very unisex and ideal from spring to autumn.

This was my first introduction to the house of Zoologist and it blew me away. Such unique fragrances! This one in particular opens up with a very fresh green musk that then dies into an Oriental floral before ending with a light powdery wood scent. Perfect for day wear, but is easily wearable any time of day. Great performance. I tried a sample of it and bought a bigger bottle the next day.

Another great fragrance from Zoologist. I love this version, but I smell a lot o fruit in it, mainly sweet pineapple; even if it is not in the declared notes. Very likeable and mass-appealing, moderate sillage, but very good longevity. It is fairly unisex, but more towards the feminine side; even if I wear it very eagerly.

This will be my favorite sleep scent in the near future. As soon as I can afford it. Could also be perfect to use on a rainy, gloomy, overcast day. For that maximum zen garden vibe. Something about it is just so calming to me. Yes a little basic, but the dirty notes give it a edge. Earthy bamboo apple on my skin. Lovely.

Panda smells so good to me. A combination of apple/tea/bambu with a very slight earthy touch. I feel this is just an attractive sexy perfume, although its price is veeery bad! Sprayer is one of the best in the market At least no weird smell here, but just a sexy attractive fresh fragrance

Opening is very earthy with fruity and floral notes in the background Fresh green and earthy sillage which is fresh and grounding Up close it's juicy fruity apple and tangerine Florals and woody base which on the other hand make it happy and uplifting

Green apple, magnolia, soft petrichor and musk. A politely radiant, ozonic and easy to wear offering from Zoologist that is suiting my current day fragrance taste. Some say shower gel, I say a whole day in a boutique Spa, all zen-like.

Ok, I've now fully recovered from COVID, it seems. This is very nice. Nothing challenging about it. I get the fruity apple bomb with florals and tea in the opening. Slight greenness, slight earthiness as it dries down. Very fresh.

The smell of rich fertile soil as it grows apples, oranges, and bamboo! Once it drys down and the musk, vanilla and sandalwood set in its what I imagine cuddling a great smelling panda bear would be like!

one of my favourites in the zoologist line, i love the smell and its oddly nostalgic, the green apple is definetly smellable and id compare it to a slight note of greenley

A bit pricey but with zoologist you will get a very unique scents.. Panda is a realistic bamboo scent.. soapy clean and very lively in the heat.. love it!

An absolutely incredible green fragrance with a wet and earthy twist for me it was love at first sniff Ideal for spring 9.5/10

This and Elephant are probably the most underrated ones from Zoologist. Beautiful scent and great performance!

A beautiful petrichor scent. Terrific stuff.

Actually smells pretty pleasant. After the first spritz I immediately get fresh green and earthy notes. After 10 seconds the warm base notes with musky civet come through. The civet is not predominant and not disturbing at all. Even when you smell it up close, it smells sour at most and is still not unpleasant. After 30 seconds I started to get the floral notes together with the green apple and patchouli in the background. After 2 minutes it seems to stop developing for a while and the sweet green apple becomes the predominant note (with the orange appearing too). After 5 minutes I definitely start to smell the ozonic notes too. And I think this stage is the best and I love this phase. The vanila comes through after 10 minutes and it stays that way. Everything is mixed well now and it's veery smooth. None of the notes feel out of place and you can enjoy the fragrance as a whole. EDIT: I kind of missed this part the first time. After 30 minutes it starts to get feminine and floral on me for a short duration. It smells like the sweat of a woman - at least a little. I know this will sound weird but it smells kind of like the underwear of a woman I dated once. Like vagina sweat or something. Very weird... but I don't dislike this to be honest. EDIT END From what I've heard the other Zoologist fragrances capture the essence of the habitat pretty well, but this one unfortunately doesn't. Something is missing. But in return you get a very wearable and imo very versatile fragrance. The ingredients seem to be decent to good quality. I honestly can't agree with most reviewers before me. This is easily a like for me, almost a love. Not what I was expecting, but it's impossible for me to dislike this. The only downside I could think of is that it reminds me of some other popular perfumes I've smelled before. The opening (10minutes) is very unique but it hasn't got that uniqueness after the opening is over. Long lasting and moderate sillage.

When I first tried this scent, I couldn’t stand it and considered scrubbing it off. Then I revisited my sample a few weeks later, and I couldn’t stop sniffing my wrist. Upon closer study, Panda is slightly reminiscent of Seahorse – one of my all-time favorite Zoologist fragrances – except this bottle trades the coral reefs for the bamboo fields. This is as bright, airy and as green as they come. I can imagine sitting in that gentle bamboo field as a breeze pushes past, and the sun pierces through the bamboo stalks. Panda is an extremely wearable fragrance that’s best sprayed in the dew of spring or the high heat of summer – ideally during daytime road trips through green fields and deep ravines. I think what was originally so off-putting to me was the apple note. I normally feel the same way about artificial apple scents that my stomach does appletinis: nauseating and vomit-inducing. But there’s more nuance to this fragrance than merely apples. As it turns out, comparing this fragrance to just apples is like comparing apples to...well, you see where this is going. Perhaps it’s the bamboo and the earthy notes that make this more complex, although I’m mildly embarrassed to admit that I don’t know what bamboo smells like. I guess...this? There is also something distinctly 90s about this fragrance. Maybe it’s the inherent youthfulness of the scent, which some reviewers described as shampoo for teenagers. But let’s be real: the 90s were cooler than this decade and so, as the 90s kids used to say, put that in your pipe and smoke it. I need to sit and frolic with this Panda a bit longer. I don’t know yet if it’s full bottle worthy, as the apple might still be too overpowering for me, but I have been quite charmed upon meeting it for a second time...even though it wasn’t originally a Pan-DUH for me. In five words or less: Bam, boo, this is delicious.

Apple, "earth" (soil & patchouli), and musk. Didn't know Pandas were fans of Granny Smith apples, but you learn something new every day. ;) In all seriousness, it opens up with a very zingy green apple, much like a fresh Granny Smith. Not usually a huge fan of apple notes in perfumes, but this is very agreeable. The apple dominates the composition for most of the opening, but then as it begins to dry down, a really nice musky soil & patchouli accord emerges. This accord plays surprisingly nice with the apple, which sticks around for most of the wearing. It's a solid "like" from me on scent alone, but I don't like it enough to immediately add a full bottle to my collection. Additionally, while it's a nice scent, I don't like it enough to pay full retail asking price, which brings my overall vote down a notch to a very strong "ok" instead. As with the other Zoologist scents that I've tried, longevity is a strong 8-9 hours, firmly placing it into the "long-lasting" category. Ah, screw it, Panda--based on your longevity, you've earned your "like". Of the three Zoologist samples that I've tested (18 more to go!), I like Panda more than Elephant, but not as much as I (really) like Sloth. Current ranking: Sloth > Panda > Elephant

The new Panda is completely different from the older formulation. There is absolutely no similarity between the two. The old Panda was very fresh, smelled like a bamboo forest during or after the rain. This one, however, smells like tart apple mixed with earthiness and some musk. Due to the patchouli note it makes me think of Thierry Mugler line, as they use a very similar dirty patchouli as in Panda. It is pleasant, but for those with an acquired taste, as this formulation is not as easy going and easy-to-wear as it predecessor. I really do like it, yet like with any other Zoologist fragrance, you must sample it before getting a bottle, it is definitely not for everyone. P.S. This formulation is not as reminiscent of a Panda as the original fragrance (in my opinion). To me, this could be called Elk, bear, mouse or any other animal that has apples in their diet (Pandas do too, but bamboo is what comes to mind first).

Fruity and earthy, but with an unpleasant note i can't put my finger on that ruin the scent for me. In the air it's not as (if at all) noticeable. It's actually really good in the air. But when smelled at half an arms length, it has a "sour towel" smell. I suspect it comes from the earthy note combined with the civet and tea notes, but i don't know for sure. In any chase, it's not detectable for anyone else then you, and the people you let get almost nose to skin with you. Of course, you still have to smell it, so i wouldn't say it's a great experience. Luckily it does fade after 10-15 minutes, but at that point, i'm very over this scent. It is nauseating and not really recommended. I Truly wanted this to be good, as the note breakdown has a lot of notes i love. But in the end, it's not for me. Personal score: 7/10. The late mid/dry-down is nice. But no fragrance is worth nausea to reach a pleasant dry-down.

I got a sample of this along with Dragonfly. I've always avoided animal notes for fear of "cat pee" smell. Apple is another one I avoid. So I was pleasantly surprised by this and glad I ventured out of my comfort zone. The musk and civet are the predominant notes for me. I can't make out the other notes individually, I just get a general fruitiness and fresh floral behind the harshness of the musk and civet. But it all seems to work together well. After a while the fruits and florals die down though, and then it's very "animalic," at least compared to what I'm used to. I haven't tried the original version of Panda, so can't compare. But I guess I could picture a large bear in a forest, even without having bamboo or much "green" notes. This is a little bolder scent than I'm used to, so I don't know if I'd call this a safe blind buy, but definitely worth trying in my opinion.

The opening of Panda is glorious and very memorable- green, dewy, and ozonic with a slight edge of bitterness. It calls to mind a verdant mountainside in early spring, covered with dew. On me this lasts about 40 minutes before transitioning into an equally green but much more flowery phase that manages to be a super fresh white floral, a rare feat. Perhaps this is the same mountain side a few hours later, with the sun warming everything and the flowers beginning to release their scent into the moist air. The dry down is less magical, it becomes sort of a bland ambery woody scent lacking any of the juicy fresh greenery from its open. Still nice but I wish the green had stuck around. It lasts at least 8 hours. I’d call it completely unisex. The first few hours of this are a revelation, and so beautiful and interesting.

DKNY Be Delicious plus Potting Soil? It's very energizing. It's optimistic. It's fruity and playful. It's a panda cub. This is a very unique fragrance that lasts forever. I do recommend trying it first, because if you don't like it, you will be stuck with it all day. It expensive, because you just need one spray and it lasts. It's a unique fragrance that I do think is easy to enjoy, but I don't think everyone would want to wear it. That wet dirt note that's artfully blended in makes it not feel not generic. It gives it an intriguing edge. I blind bought a travel spray. I don't regret it. I have to be in the mood to wear it (although that applies to all my fragrances), but my partner wears it more often than I do and every time she does, I'm so happy I bought it.

Green, fresh, floral, musky, dirty. Panda is one of the better & more appealing scents from Zoologist. It's a fresh & green fruity apple scent, with a mild white floral tone, & dirty musky "earthy notes" accord that smells like dirt with a mild barnyard-y stink. This whole green fresh fruity musky scent is pulled down by the stink of the earthy note. It would've been much better at lesser amount of it, or even without it. And yet, Panda is still one of the better smells from Zoologist. As I've said in my review of Bee, Zoologist don't make fragrances, they bottle scents. They take a common scent from nature & re-create it in their labs & bottle it. Hence, as "fragrances", they are not always the best smelling. But they are sure are unique. Big "Like".

My friends gave this the nickname "pissy panda" - unfortunately they're right. It's a beautiful classic men's cologne with piss smeared all throughout the notes. It's someone passing by you in a club wearing a wonderful fragrance - who has urine on his shoes. It's tangy, fruity, seductive. I wish I could un-smell the urine because everything else is so wonderful about this fragrance, very well balanced. I don't know if animalics are just especially strong to my nose, but I also haven't tried it on skin yet just because the urine smell was so off-putting for me, so maybe it's a bit more tempered on the skin. Despite that, I kept coming back to it and enjoying it, so maybe it does deserve another chance.

This is a purely fresh and clean scent, similar to Dragonfly. But where Dragonfly is fresh in a floral and aquatic way, Panda is more fresh in a green and earthy way. The most prominent note in the opening to me were the green apple, tea, and ozone. As it dries down it becomes a bit more warm and earthy. To me this smells like a man who has just gotten out of the shower. The fact that some of you are smelling piss, feces and dirt is WILD. Just goes to show how subjective fragrances are.

Cool concept, at first you’re enticed with this super nice fruity fresh apple that’s easy to like by anyone and is reminiscent of something I might find in the mall, but what makes this special is the animalic undertones below the top. Deep earthy notes and a civet note is prevalent closer to skin while it seems more green and airy from afar, it feels like a mature niche take on a designer fruity smell, I think this might be one of the more underrated Zoologists.

I must be crazy because all I smell at the opening is pineapple, almost a piña colada like combo. The freshness is very bright and clean but also tropical. The base later has scents of bamboo or pale green heart woods. I don't know if I get animalistic panda but I definitely feel pandan in this scent but slightly more tart. The panda on the image is wearing a tux but I'm not sure I'd wear this one during fancy occasions, maybe smart casual.

Upon initial spray it kinda smelled sour, like when dogs have that stinky eye gunk. I really got that dirt too. HOWEVER!!! As it drys down it smells almost like this powdery, musky, kind of damp, fruity hair spray with this hint of cologne. Its really nice, i can see this being a little headache inducing if i keep sniffing it closely tho. I havent smelled this in a long time but it reminds me of the OFF! Mosquito spray a little 😭

It's green, calming, nice. At first reminded me of Dragonfly but that one is tamer, even though their dry down is very similar. I think this is a nice summer fragrance. I personally do not find it unique or as artistic as other Zoologist perfumes. This smell is easily forgettable. That being said, it's also pleasant and easy to wear. The notes I get the most: tea, osmanthus, citrus, some earthy tones.

There’s tea? Yes. Potting soil? Yes also. Like it? Not really. No apple detected either. Just okay for me. Edit. Dry down after a few hrs is more likable but still poting soil like. Edit. Revisiting this after a bit more than a year. The apple is now very prominent. Wonder where it was hiding the last time I sprayed. Anyway I upped it to ‘like’ since I still can hardly stand the potting soil note.

Unfortunately, Panda is not for me. The opening is very similar to Bat with the earthy soil notes, but I think these notes are much stronger and last longer in Panda. Panda also features lots of crisp tart apples and musk. It's just too sour for me. There are only a few apple fragrances that I really enjoy. Oh well, they can't all be winners. I love Zoologist though. One of my favorite houses.