As Steven Broadhurst hinted to Managing Editor Mark Behnke in our Behind the bottle Series a new fragrance by the luxe Australian Perfumery will be released this month. Named  Passerelle (French for bridge, cat walk or gang plank) it is Tommi Sooni's perfumed bridge between the cultures of Australia and France. The Perfumer is Brett Schittler who composed the inaugral line.

Fragrance notes include: lemon scented myrtle, black pepper, yellow freesia, murraya, green boronia buds, Australian silver wattle (mimosa), coastal tee tree, native Australian jasmine, tolu, petigrain, civet and sandalwood.

Passerelle will be released in May 2012.

Editor's Note: I have no idea if Monet's famous painting Passerelle sur le Bassin aux Nympheas will evoke the perfume, but I loved the painting and the colors of many of the natural ingredients seem to fit…and is that a nymph on the bottle?

–Michelyn Camen, Editor-In-Chief