22/08/2026
A change of season is a good time to reconsider what you wear on the skin.
Under the lens: Naomi Goodsir, the Sydney-born, Paris-based designer whose fragrances begin with images, places and memories rather than conventional ideas of what perfume should be.
The three compositions at Eastern Hill could hardly be more different.
Bois d’Ascèse begins with a memory of a wooden church in the New South Wales hills, surrounded by a landscape burning in the heat. Incense, blond to***co, whisky and cade wood give it a dry, smoky character, austere at first before warmth begins to emerge on the skin.
Or du Sérail takes its cue from the excess and colour of Delacroix. Ripe fruit, rum and incense lead into beeswax, honey, to***co, amber and vanilla. Rich, generous and long lasting, it is the most opulent of the three.
Nuit de Bakélite takes tuberose somewhere stranger. Galbanum brings a sharp green opening before tuberose meets an unusual bakelite accord, with labdanum underneath. Floral, vegetal and faintly industrial, it is deliberately removed from the usual romantic treatment of tuberose.
Three fragrances with three very different temperaments, and perhaps a reason to find something new as winter begins to give way.
Discover Naomi Goodsir at easternhillgs.com.
Sydney, Australia.
