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History
Goldfield & Banks was founded around 2016 by Dimitri Weber, a French-Belgian fragrance expert based in Australia. After a long career in European luxury perfumery, he came to the continent for a launch and chose to stay and found what he presents as the first Australian luxury perfume house.
The project rests on a clear idea: to reveal Australian raw materials through an exacting niche perfumery. Native sandalwood, Buddha wood, blue cypress, boronia, golden wattle, finger lime and quandong become the house vocabulary, composed with craftsmanship inherited from French perfumery.
The first compositions, launched in 2016, set the foundations: Pacific Rock Moss, Blue Cypress, Desert Rosewood and White Sandalwood draw an olfactory map of the continent, from coastline to deserts. The range then grew steadily, with Velvet Splendour (2019), Bohemian Lime (2020), Silky Woods and Sunset Hour (2021).
Dimitri Weber directs the creative vision of every perfume, entrusting the execution of the compositions to external perfumers. The house remains independent, claims a gender-free range, traceability and sustainability commitments, and sells both directly and through an international network of niche perfumeries.
Australian materials, the house signature
Goldfield & Banks’ singularity lies in its vocabulary of Australian materials. Where most houses draw on a shared global palette, Dimitri Weber builds his identity on materials specific to the continent: native sandalwood (Santalum spicatum), Buddha wood, blue cypress, Tasmanian boronia, golden wattle, finger lime and desert quandong.
These materials are foregrounded right down to the perfume names, which work as a map: Pacific Rock Moss evokes the coast, Desert Rosewood the arid lands, Blue Cypress and White Sandalwood the woods. The house claims a traceability and sustainability approach around these resources.
For the visitor, Goldfield & Banks reads as an olfactory journey across Australia, where French perfumery craftsmanship showcases raw materials rarely used elsewhere.
Perfumes
The gender-free range is built around Australian materials under the creative direction of Dimitri Weber. Here are the most identifiable perfumes.
| Year | Perfume | Perfumer | Olfactory family |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Pacific Rock Moss | Non communiqué | Aromatic mossy |
| 2016 | Blue Cypress | Non communiqué | Woody chypre |
| 2016 | Desert Rosewood | Non communiqué | Amber wood |
| 2016 | White Sandalwood | Non communiqué | Spicy wood |
| 2018 | Southern Bloom | Non communiqué | Green floral |
| 2019 | Velvet Splendour | Non communiqué | Mimosa floral |
| 2020 | Bohemian Lime | Non communiqué | Citrus aromatic |
| 2021 | Silky Woods | Non communiqué | Amber wood |
| 2021 | Sunset Hour | Non communiqué | Fruity floral |
Goldfield & Banks entrusts its compositions to external perfumers working under the creative direction of Dimitri Weber. As per-perfume attributions are not confirmed by primary sources, the Perfumer column reads Non communiqué.
Signature
Goldfield & Banks’ signature rests on the pairing of a vocabulary of Australian materials and French perfumery craftsmanship. Under Dimitri Weber’s creative direction, each perfume showcases one or more materials of the continent, from native sandalwood to blue cypress, in gender-free, luminous compositions.
The house favours woods, aromatics and sunny florals, with attention to material traceability. This strong geographic identity, rare in niche perfumery, sets the house apart on the international scene.
An Australian house that reveals the continent’s raw materials, from native sandalwood to blue cypress, with French perfumery craftsmanship under Dimitri Weber’s direction.