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"Life... arise... Be born, a new existence." _{~Giorno Giovanna}

The Gold Experience (ゴールド・エクスペリエンス (黄金体験) Gōrudo Ekusuperiensu), localized as Golden Wind is the Stand of Giorno Giovanna, featured in the fifth part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Vento Aureo.

It is a short-range power-type Stand with the ability to create life from inanimate material.

Gold Experience is a humanoid Stand that mirrors the slim physique and average height of its user, Giorno. There are curved carvings engraved on the top of its head, which resembles a combat helmet as well as the body of a jewel scarab beetle. It notably has a large arch in the center with five lines emerging from it, segmenting the head into six symmetrical divisions, with the two lines going to the top corners of the arch each having a golden spiral pattern.

Lacking pupils and irises to look more mysterious, its eyes are segmented by lines. Below its eyes, there are curved markings similar to the letter "J" extending down to beside its lips. It has grooves covering its chest, forearms and legs. Gold Experience bears stylized, small wings on its shoulders and large ladybugs on each side of its chest, waist, hands, and feet, paralleling the ladybug emblems present on Giorno's design. It wears a loincloth covering its back with slings attached to the front, similar to the suspenders on DIO's pants. It also wears elbow braces and knee pads.

Gold Experience's design is based on scarab beetles, which were a symbol of creation in ancient Egypt, and on ladybugs, symbolizing regeneration, with its angel wings as a symbol of peace.

As a close-range/power type stand, Gold Experience excels in close combat and destroying objects with a barrage of punches. However, while it boasts tremendous speed, the stand has only a "C" in Destructive Power and a "D" in Durability, meaning its punches are only slightly stronger than if Giorno was the one throwing them. When fighting other Stands that possess similar speed and higher strength and Durability, Gold Experience tends to underperform and become easily overwhelmed in direct combat. It makes up for this with its Special Ability: Life Giver. Life Giver allows Gold Experience to fill anything it touches with life. When used on non-living things, it causes the object to transform into either a Plant or a Small Animal like a frog, insect, or bird. The lifeforms created by Gold Experience are capable of reflecting damage to the aggressor with proportionate power to the damage that the organism would take. For example: A frog would easily be crushed to death by a shovel so attacking one with it causes an immediate lethal injury. When used on an already living thing, it can accelerate biological functions, resulting in increased strength, speed, and thought processing power or accelerating aging. Gold Experience can even transmute objects into tissue and small organs, then fuse them into a persons body to help heal minor injuries. Gold Experience can also sense the life force within things, allowing it to tell whether or not something or someone is alive or dead.