Sunset Hour
Eau de Parfum, Goldfield & Banks (2021)

Goldfield & Banks Sunset Hour is a fresh, fruity, ambery mix featuring mandarin, raspberry, sandalwood, benzoin, ginger, and jasmine, a medley that is pleasant, uplifting, hearty, unisex, and fairly opulent-smelling. It fits in nicely among the house’s collection of natural, fresh compositions that have broad appeal and utility, in my opinion, and while I’d argue that this and some of the others are not too unique, it’s nonetheless an easygoing escape to the outdoors, perhaps tropical, while in an office cubicle. Not among my very favorites of the line so far but still quite nice.

Sunset Hour is part of the main collection, currently priced at $190/130/36 for 100/50/10ml, quite reasonable in the current market in my opinion, sold in US boutiques like Perfumology, and with very good performance.

7 out of 10

Canned peaches in syrup. You could throw a rock in a drugstore and hit something like this—and you should.

Barbie in her dotage. Mainly a wrinkly cloud of plasticky icky sugary ethyl-maltoly vanilla and some dusty skin musk, through which a vague synthetic fruitiness tries to make its presence known, but doesn’t quite succeed. A perfume I’d pass on sharpish if it were ever given to me, it’s the epitome of ‘couldn’t give a damn’.