Heritage
A house, in its own words
The story of Goldfield & Banks begins with a Belgian-born fragrance professional who had spent 25 years working within the French perfume industry before ever setting foot in Australia. Dimitri Weber arrived Down Under initially for a fragrance launch, expecting a brief professional trip. A friend suggested he extend his stay to explore the landscapes he had flown nearly 24 hours to reach. What began as an invitation to see the country quickly became a life-changing immersion. Weber found himself captivated not only by the physical beauty of the terrain, sweeping from turquoise coastlines to ochre-red interiors, but by the extraordinary botanical richness of an continent whose plant life had remained largely unexplored by mainstream fine fragrance. Alongside his growing connection to the land itself, Weber met someone special, reinforcing his decision to make Australia his permanent home. The founding of Goldfield & Banks emerged naturally from this double discovery: here was an untouched palette of rare ingredients, paired with a genuine love for a place that demanded tribute. Weber set about building a fragrance house that could honour both, creating scents that captured the essence of specific Australian locations including Fraser Island, Kakadu National Park, and Byron Bay. The brand launched its first collection based around the Australian landscape, establishing a new category as the country's first dedicated luxury fragrance house.
The guiding principle behind Goldfield & Banks is straightforward in concept yet ambitious in execution: to marry the botanical wealth of Australia with the refinement of French perfumery tradition. Weber brought a quarter-century of classical training to a landscape that had never before received such considered attention from the fine fragrance world. The brand operates from the conviction that Australia holds ingredients of genuine rarity, essences that the broader palette of French and Italian perfumers had rarely encountered, let alone worked with. Each fragrance in the collection aims to be both transportive and refined, carrying the wearer somewhere specific through scent alone. The house rejects the conventional gendered approach to fragrance, instead designing gender-free expressions that speak across preferences. This philosophy extends to the sourcing philosophy: the brand prioritises native botanicals that represent authentic Australian flora, complemented by introduced species that have found particular success in the Australian climate, such as agarwood grown in the Queensland tropics. The result is a collection that reads as an ongoing exploration rather than a fixed catalog, continually revealing new facets of what Australian fragrance can mean.