Goldfield & Banks

Goldfield & Banks is an independent luxury fragrance house based in Sydney, Australia, founded in 2016 by Dimitri Weber [2]. Its scents pair native Australian botanicals with French perfumery, and the house presents itself as an "Australian Luxury Fragrance House." Australian and niche-fragrance press have described it as the country's first luxury perfume house [7][8].

The company remains active and independently run. Recent collections, including a Coast to Coast line and seasonal gift edits dated 2026, appear on its own site, alongside collaborations with named perfumers such as Honorine Blanc and Ilias Ermenidis.

Dimitri Weber, the founder and creative director, is a French-Belgian perfumer who spent more than thirty years in luxury fragrance before starting the house. According to a feature in Style Magazines, he worked for European houses including YSL, Cartier, Tom Ford and Shiseido, in cities such as Antwerp and Paris [8]. By Wikipedia's account he relocated to Australia permanently in 2014 and established the brand two years later [6].

The house says it was born when Weber arrived in Australia and found "a landscape rich with rare, aromatic native botanicals" that, in his words, modern fine fragrance had "barely touched." The brand takes its name from the 18th-century botanist Joseph Banks and Australia's goldfields, a reference Weber connects to a sense of exploration; he has said he likes to think of himself as an explorer, recalling the excitement Banks would have felt on first reaching Australia [7].

Goldfield & Banks is organised around fragrance, split between a Native Collection built on Australian ingredients and a Botanical Series that develops global botanicals grown in Australian soils. Hero materials cited by the house include Australian sandalwood, Buddha Wood, brown boronia, blue cypress, golden wattle, lavender and agarwood. Several of these are unusually scarce: The Luxe Review notes that agarwood is "one of the most expensive essences in perfumery," costing up to AU$100,000 per litre, and that boronia absolute requires roughly 12.5 million flowers per litre [7].

Named releases include Southern Bloom, Bohemian Lime, Sunset Hour, Ingenious Ginger, Silky Woods and Purple Suede. The fragrances are positioned as gender-free; the company frames this around the idea that "plants do not have gender," and lets customers choose scents for themselves rather than by category [7]. According to the brand, all fragrances carry a concentration of at least 20% fragrance oil and are diluted in alcohol distilled from organic beetroot, with formulas free of phthalates and extracts from genetically modified plants.

Where production happens is recorded differently across sources. The house's own FAQ states that it creates its perfume oil blends in Australia using Australian and global essences, then sends them to France to be diluted in alcohol and bottled [3]; Style Magazines independently describes Australian-processed oils sent to Grasse, France, for blending and bottling [8]. Wikipedia instead reports that the fragrances are produced in Switzerland at Firmenich and in Melbourne at Australian Botanical Products [6]. The brand's self-stated process is followed here, with the alternative noted; the discrepancy may reflect an earlier or partial sourcing arrangement.

The company says it has built relationships with Australian growers and distillers since 2016, emphasising full traceability "from field to extraction to final blend." It describes its fragrances as cruelty-free and as 100% vegan, with the stated exceptions of Silky Woods and Velvet Splendour, which contain beeswax.

Two releases have been recognised in industry awards. Southern Bloom won silver for best new niche fragrance at the 2019 Pure Beauty Awards [6], and Bohemian Lime was a finalist in the 2021 Belgian Beauty Awards [6]. In editorial coverage, The Luxe Review described the house as "Australia's first luxury perfume house" and a "modern darling" of the perfume world [7].

Goldfield & Banks sells directly through its own site and, per Wikipedia, across Europe, the United States, the Middle East and East Asia [6]. The brand's site also presents a "supported by" strip listing luxury stockists such as Selfridges, Harrods, Saks Fifth Avenue and Bergdorf Goodman; these placements are stated by the brand rather than independently confirmed.

The house is active as of 2026, with current collections and gift guides published on its own site and ongoing collaborations with master perfumers and, in 2025, the Australian artist Felix Nankivell on its Coast to Coast campaign.