CHERRY LA AND SALT & STONE REVIVE LEATHER & DESERT GRASS

Leather & Desert Grass went back on sale August 14 at 9am Pacific, nine months after it sold out in days during its first run last November. Salt & Stone built the scent with Cherry Los Angeles, the South Central leather label known for hand cut jackets made inside Los Angeles city limits. A restock that resells out is no longer a limited drop; it is a business decision to keep the line alive, and Salt & Stone just proved it twice. This time the collaboration finally added a body mist, a format the scent never had in its first run, alongside the returning deodorant, body wash and candle. Within days the mist and the candle sold through again while the deodorant and body wash stayed on shelves at full price.

9am Pacific. Two of Four Items Gone Within Days.

The restock opened at 9am Pacific and noon Eastern on August 14, the exact slot Salt & Stone had posted a day earlier on Instagram. Within a week the body mist and the Leather & Desert Grass candle sold through again, while the deodorant and body wash stayed in stock at full price. That split repeats the pattern from the scent's first run last November, when the entire capsule cleared out in days, before most grooming outlets had time to review it. The mist and the candle are new or scarce; the deodorant and body wash are staples people already trust for 48 hour protection with no aluminum. Limited formats move first because the buyer chasing them is chasing scarcity, not routine. That is the split a body care brand has to manage every time it dresses a staple product in a limited scent.

Tobacco Blossom Sits on Top of Cactus Water and Worn Leather

Leather & Desert Grass opens on apricot nectar, pink peppercorn and cactus water, the fresh top notes that register first. Tobacco blossom, desert grass and violet leaf take over through the heart, then tonka bean, mahogany leather and sandalwood carry the base once the fruit burns off. That shape, fruit over dry florals over leather and wood, is a familiar western fragrance build, but the mahogany leather note sitting directly under the tobacco blossom is what ties it back to Cherry Los Angeles specifically, an echo of the tanned hides the label still cuts by hand inside its South Central workshop rather than a synthetic leather accord borrowed from a fragrance house catalog. Brain Dead and MALIN+GOETZ built a comparable leather fragrance the same year around lotus, pepper and cedarwood, proof the streetwear leather scent has become its own small category rather than one brand's gimmick. Leather & Desert Grass earns its spot in that category by naming six notes on the label instead of hiding behind a mood board.

Nima Jalali Runs a Deodorant Company With a Music Division Now

Nima Jalali, a former professional snowboarder, founded Salt & Stone in Los Angeles in 2017 on one product, an aluminum free deodorant built to hit 48 hour protection without the ingredients most clean brands avoid naming outright. The company now sells through more than 1,700 retail doors across 40 countries and closed 2025 at $165 million in revenue. In March, Advent International, the private equity firm that also owns Olaplex, signed to take a majority stake in Salt & Stone, a deal expected to close that April with Jalali staying on as chief executive and keeping a minority share. That kind of capital is why a body care brand can run a music partnership and a leather label collaboration in the same season instead of picking one. One week before the Leather & Desert Grass restock, Salt & Stone launched its biggest music partnership yet, a campaign starring the musician Role Model timed to his third album, Chuck Timely and the Hourglass, which came out August 7. Same week, same brand, two different audiences.

Cherry LA Opened a Store. Then a Sandwich. Now a Scent Again.

Cherry Los Angeles has made three consumer facing moves since June, and the Salt & Stone restock is the third. Cherry LA opened its first walk in retail location at the Malibu Country Mart in June, trading its South Central, workshop only model for a storefront for the first time since Joseph Perez and David Levy founded the label in 2017. Weeks later, the brand made a sandwich with Max and Helen's for Family Style Fest, moving its West Coast Americana identity from garments into food for a single afternoon. The fragrance restock with Salt & Stone is the same expansion instinct applied a third time, this time into personal care, and it is the one Cherry LA does not control end to end, since Salt & Stone owns the formula, the manufacturing and, as of Advent's investment, a balance sheet a South Central leather workshop does not have on its own. At $20 for the deodorant and $45 for the body mist, the price sits closer to premium drugstore than niche perfumery, which is the actual case for buying in. Buy the deodorant if you want the scent on your own schedule. Skip the candle unless you catch the next restock, because on this evidence it will not last the week.