Goldfield & Banks is a perfumery house founded in Australia, born in Sydney in 2016 from a love at first sight. Dimitri Weber, a French-Belgian perfumer, visited Australia for the first time around 2014 and was looking for an Australian perfume brand. He found none. Fascinated by the botanical richness of a continent that modern perfumery had almost never explored, he decided to stay and create what didn't exist. The house's name pays homage to Joseph Banks, the British botanist who accompanied James Cook on his round-the-world voyage in the 18th century and was the first to reveal Australia's extraordinary plant diversity to the European world. It is this same exploratory curiosity that Dimitri Weber translates into his perfumes: boronia, Australian red ginger, Tasmanian sandalwood, Southern coastal moss, Tasmanian lavender from Provençal plants transplanted a century ago. Rare ingredients, little or never used in perfumery, picked on-site then sent to France to be formulated with organic beet alcohol and bottled according to European methods. Each perfume is a precise postcard: a sunset over the Indian Ocean for Sunset Hour, the feeling of walking on a wave-battered coast for Pacific Rock Flower, the warmth of a rose in the middle of the desert for Rose Magnitude. Highly concentrated extracts, designed to last and leave a clear imprint. Australia in a bottle, composed with French savoir-faire.
