Paola Bottai

The perfume aficionado on heightened senses and following your nose

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by Josephine McKenna for Freunde von Freunden Paola Bottai has been passionate about perfume for as long as she can remember. In fact, her nose is so sensitive she used to feel ill whenever she picked up a bad smell on the street. Now a top perfume creator, Paola has turned her lifelong fascination with aromas into a burgeoning career. For the petite 35-year-old, perfume …

Spotify’s Year in Music, 2015

What CH and the rest of the world have been listening to

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By now, you’ve no doubt trawled through your musical obsessions from 2015, thanks to Spotify’s Year in Music and if not, we couldn’t recommend it more. Whether you began 2015 with something timely, nostalgic or something by Drake, which most of the world seemed to do (the Canadian rapper being the most streamed artist of the entire year), it’s been an exciting and fascinating 365 …

Combatant Gentlemen’s New Year Essentials

Gear that will take you through celebrations and into the coldest season

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While the holiday season is different in each hemisphere and celebrated differently from country to country and family to family, one commonality is the festive, spirited energy. This is furthered over the new year period, with a feeling that anything can happen. Indeed, whether celebrating with family (chosen or related) or friends, anything can in fact happen. Combatant Gentlemen has—for the past three years—been outfitting …