Goldfield & Banks was founded in Sydney by Dimitri Weber with a single idea: that Australia's native botanicals deserved the same treatment as the lavender of Provence or the roses of Grasse. The house sources them here, from sandalwood to lime to boronia, and has them composed by perfumers trained in the French tradition.
The fragrances are named for the places and plants that made them. Pacific Rock Moss is salt air and green stone, the smell of the coast north of the city. Bohemian Lime is finger lime and vetiver, bright and dry. Southern Bloom is boronia, the flower Tasmanians know and almost no one else does. Velvet Splendour is mimosa, soft and golden. Desert Rosewood is sandalwood and rosewood and the warmth of the inland.
Why it matters
Australian fragrance has spent a long time being an idea rather than a practice. Goldfield & Banks made it a practice, with materials that grow nowhere else and a standard of composition that would hold its own anywhere.
Why Stacey admires it
Because a boutique in Sydney should carry the smell of Sydney, and this is the house that captured it properly.