Photo of Sunset Hour by Olya Bar
If you could savor that perfect hour when the blazing sun slowly dips into the Indian ocean, liquifying itself into the most delicious cocktail, it would taste and smell like Sunset Hour.
With every Goldfield & Banks fragrance, creative director Dimitri Weber managed to take us on a sensory journey through different parts of Australia, exploring and uncovering the abundance of native Australian ingredients. Sunset Hour explores the novelty of the Quandong, a wild Desert Peach from Australia, as it takes center stage in the composition, pouring its delicious juice over the rest of the ingredients.
Sunset Hour Collage by Olya Bar
For thousands of years, Quandong has been a traditional staple food of central Australian Aborigines. Although sometimes a little tart, the fleshy fruit has a pleasant taste when ripe, similar to a cross between apricots, peaches, and rhubarb. Quandong is featured in multiple mentions of the Aboriginal mythology as a fruit to increase the season’s harvest.
The first few minutes of Goldfield & Banks Sunset Hour is equivalent to a gulp of tropical vacation cocktail you would quench your thirst with on the sandy beach. The fragrance bursts with juicy mandarins, succulent peaches, and a slightly spicy kick of ginger with jammy raspberries. A luscious affair keeps on playing with an apricot-like sweetness of jasmine in full bloom, making this a true fruity aromatic affair. It has a youthful spirit woven through it as if it was composed with the idea of renal happiness, which we often associate with the tropics.
Tropical Sunset via Unsplash
You can’t possibly feel any melancholy wearing this; like a boost of vitamin C, it will pulsate with vibrancy and uplifting energy. A perfect supplement we all need in the spring as we emerge from months of gray winter and hibernation. A scrumptious experience continues as the base starts to give off an aroma of soft creamy sandalwood, a touch of coconut milk, and benzoin from Laos. I truly enjoy smelling the peach from the beginning through the end as it vines through the whole structure. The pungent peppercorn and ginger tame the whole thing just enough, so its juiciness doesn’t spill over the edge of the glass bottle. The boiling heat starts to slowly lower, and in the last few hours, my skin feels like I spent all day lounging on the beach, soaking up the tropical sun rays and rubbing coconut tanning oil all over. Is there a drop of seriousness in this whole bottle, you may ask? Not at all. This is one flirtatious careless little babe. She lives and breathes in her little world of pleasure, mouthwatering gifts of nature and sunset hour swim, letting the ocean wash away any worries or looks of jealousy her tight golden body may have gathered through the day. She thinks life is too short to spend time caring about what others say about her. She lives in the moment of eternal youth, and she devours every moment of it, as should you.
The bottle is from my own collection and opinions are always my own.
Notes: Mandarin Italy, Desert Peach Australia (Quandong) ,Pear, Raspberry, Jasmin Sambac Absolute, Ginger Nigeria, Pink Pepper Madagascar, Sandalwood Australia, Cashmere Wood, Benzoin Laos
–Olya Bar, Senior Contributor
Sunset Hour photo by Goldfield & Banks
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Note on Quandong: Its scientific name is Santalum acuminatum, the red fruit which grows only in the deserts regions of Australia and interestingly is part of the sandalwood family
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