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Leland Francis is a gender-inclusive, plant-based luxury skincare and fragrance house rooted in sustainability. Clean, intentional, and uncompromising.
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The Making of Rowdy Boy (opens the original)
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The Clown Always Won Out (opens the original)
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I still remember the Labor Day weekends of my childhood. Memories etched in like the words to Ice Ice Baby or U Can’t Touch This or Friends in Low Places.Late summer in western Oklahoma has a smell you can stand inside of. Dust lifted off a dirt road and never quite settling. Cut grass gone sweet and brown at the edges. Livestock, leather, hay warm in the sun. The heat still coming up off the ground at eight in the evening, long after the light has gone low and gold.Labor Day weekend was the Rod
A Certain Hour (opens the original)
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There is a certain hour in summer I love.It’s the moment just before golden hour hits.The heat of the day is still there, but the light begins to change. Everything softens. For a few minutes, the sky and everything around it take on this almost lavender hue.The light hits just right.That is when I think Pomelo Sensual smells its best.I have always loved grapefruit in fragrance. There is something about that first sharp brightness. Clean. Immediate. Almost impossible not to notice.But I didn’t w
July Fifth (opens the original)
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America turned two hundred and fifty yesterday. This morning it smells like the day after. Smoke settling low. Cut grass gone warm. Somebody’s flag still out on the porch.I keep thinking about what that number smells like. Not fireworks. Red dirt after rain in western Oklahoma. Alfalfa cut in June and left to dry. My grandmother’s rose bush against a farmhouse the wind never left alone.The Fourth I grew up with was not a production. It was folding chairs in the yard. Grape Shasta and Dr Pepper o
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