Goldfield & Banks Australia

Goldfield & Banks Australia was founded in Sydney in 2016 by French‑Belgian perfumer and beauty industry veteran Dimitri Weber, after a formative visit to Australia a decade earlier sparked his interest in the country’s native botanicals. The name of the house references Joseph Banks, the British naturalist who documented much of Australia’s flora, underlining the brand’s focus on local plant materials. According to Weber, Goldfield & Banks was set up specifically as an Australian luxury perfume house, with the goal of putting Australian perfumery and ingredients on the global map.

The brand works extensively with Australian growers to source materials such as boronia from Tasmania, Australian sandalwood, and other native woods, resins and aromatics, often from remote, low‑pollution regions. Weber has stated in interviews that he insists on producing the fragrances in Australia and collaborates with both Australian and French perfumers, aiming to pair classical French composition techniques with an Australian raw-material palette. Scents like Southern Bloom, inspired by Bruny Island and featuring boronia, ylang‑ylang, coconut and Australian sandalwood, illustrate this approach of tying each perfume to a specific Australian location, which is also printed on the bottle.

From an initial European and US launch in retailers such as Barneys, Bloomingdale’s and Selfridges, Goldfield & Banks has expanded to hundreds of doors across dozens of countries and is present in travel retail at airports including Melbourne and Sydney. The company remains privately held and headquartered in Sydney, with a small team, and continues to focus its storytelling, marketing and raw‑material sourcing on Australia’s landscapes and native botanicals rather than on outsourcing production to traditional fragrance hubs in France or Italy.