Sonya, 32, calm company from the Jordaan

Seven in the evening, a small restaurant in the west of the city with about nine tables, and Sonya is already reading the wine list rather than her phone. The pace of the next four hours is set in the first ten minutes and it is a slow one. She asks better questions than most people answer, listens to the reply properly, and never once looks at the door. Guests describe the effect afterwards as restful, which at the end of a hard week is worth a great deal.

Card: 32 years old, 162 centimetres, athletic, long straight dark brown hair, hazel eyes, English. Understated evening elegance is the phrase she settled on, and the four daylight images, taken by a pool deck and a garden hot tub, keep to the quiet end of the register. Calm, thoughtful, warm. Those three, in that order, are what the booking actually delivers. Meditation is the daily discipline, twenty minutes, unromantically, every morning, and it is the visible source of the composure. Ballet was the childhood training and it never entirely leaves anybody, which is why she moves the way she does. Fragrance collecting is the third and most enjoyable interest, a properly catalogued shelf of it, an obsession Vanessa shares and Jasmin will argue with her about at length.

She is based in Jordaan, minutes from the canal ring hotels, with a straight run out to the airport hotels when the ring is clear. At 32 she has no interest in noise and considerable interest in a table that is allowed to run late. Book her when you want the evening to lower your pulse rather than raise it, and expect an arrival time that is accurate to the minute.