Goldfield & Banks · 2021 · Honorine Blanc

Sunset Hour

Premium$$$, 3 of 5
Goldfield & Banks asks about $195 for 100 ml
50 mlabout $138
100 mlabout $195

VersionEau de Parfum

Pear, mandarin and desert peach over jasmine sambac and salty caramel, drying to creamy vanilla and benzoin.

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Sunset Hour’s scent picture, a draft: peach, mandarin, jasmine, salty caramel, vanilla, benzoin drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Sunset Hour, top notes: Peach, Mandarin, Mango, Ginger, Pink pepper

Heartas it settles

Sunset Hour, heart: Jasmine, Salty caramel, Raspberry, Pear, Coconut, Rhubarb

Dry-downwhat stays

Sunset Hour, dry-down: Vanilla, Benzoin, Sandalwood, Musk, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What the label names

7 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender2 florals1 sweet1 powder

10 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Blanche IVAjmal · shares peach, mandarin, jasmine, Salty Caramel and 4 more
Vanilla 01Swiss Arabian · shares jasmine, Salty Caramel, vanilla, sandalwood and 3 more$68 for 50 ml
AnghamLattafa · shares mandarin, jasmine, vanilla, ginger and 2 more$49.99 for 100 ml · about a quarter of Sunset Hour’s about $195

Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.