Sarah-Lou excitedly took this formula to an apothecary and formed an alliance with a very old established English family run factory who produced the quality Sarah-Lou wanted to sell to the world. After her native England her next port of call is:

Australia, to where Sir Joseph Banks set sail, over two hundred years ago, bringing plant cuttings back from the other side of the world to England. He was also an Aquarian and a 5-star meal for insects. In 1766, whilst madly botanising in Newfoundland, Lieutenant John Phipps wrote of Banks 'He works night and day and lets the mosquitoes eat more of him than he does of any kind of food through eagerness'. With enthusiasm and focus the charismatic Sir Joseph, eventually a curator for George III's Kew Gardens, collected thousands and thousands of plant specimens from the East Coast of Australia bringing them back to The Chelsea Physic Garden in carefully designed wooden boxes on Captain Cook's ship. These plant boxes can still be seen at the Garden.

Sarah-Lou was always drawn to the Australian area within the Garden. Don't tell anyone but she would often talk to Sir Joseph about which plants she should blend and chat to him about her research. Now she marvels that with a click, Alfresco's fragrance can take you back to another world and another time. 'Mind you, bugs don't appreciate it' she says, laughing.