Richard Gotobed

Profession: Scented Storyteller & Creative Forager

Favorite Places: The rooftop garden of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; the overgrown greenhouse behind an abandoned villa in Sintra; the reading room of the Bodleian Library in Oxford; and the corner booth at Café de la Régence in Paris, where he sketches while eavesdropping on chess debates.

Favorite Letter: Crisis, Chaos & Popcorn: PR War Rooms (battles with chicken, bananas & bikinis)

Hobbies: Botanical dyeing with foraged petals, scent-mapping emotions in watercolor, hand-binding journals for unsent letters, curating forgotten ad slogans, embroidering secret symbols into pocket squares, and blending tea according to the moon cycle.

Favorite Restaurant: A fig and gorgonzola tart consumed in the garden of a crumbling Florentine palazzo.

Favorite Scents: Smoked vetiver, violet leaf, sun-warmed ink, aged leather, and cedar closets filled with love letters.