Marie Urban Le Febvre: a style between minimalism, memory and matter

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An independent perfumer trained at ISIPCA, Marie Urban Le Febvre is the embodiment of a sensitive and demanding perfumery d'auteur. Her style is characterized by a minimalist, sensorial approach, where the quality of raw materials takes precedence over complexity.

She collaborates with brands, museums and scientific projects, while passing on her knowledge at ISIPCA and the Osmothèque. For her, each fragrance tells an intimate story of nature, emotion and freedom.

In the silence of her laboratory in Trieste, she distills silence, light and memories. Marie Urban Le Febvre doesn't try to seduce at all costs: she invites, with modesty and high standards. Trained in the classical school, freed by her independence, she creates fragrances that touch because they listen. Her style is uncluttered, tactile and nuanced. Here's a portrait of a perfumer who has chosen to follow in her own wake.

A chemist with refined senses

A native of Paris, Marie Urban Le Febvre has cultivated an instinctive, sensory relationship with the world since childhood. So it's no coincidence that she began her career by studying chemistry, before joining the ISIPCA perfumery school in Versailles in 2000. There, she learned the codes and fundamentals of the profession, then honed her skills with master perfumers at Symrise and Takasago in Paris. This solid foundation would later enable her to deconstruct and affirm her style.

Urban Scents: creative independence and olfactory writing

In 2014, she co-founded Urban Scents in Berlin with her Austrian husband Alexander Urban. An independent house, in their image: free, demanding, cosmopolitan. The propeller as emblem - a nod to her passion for aviation. In 2023, the couple set up their laboratory in Trieste, between the sea breeze and Italian memory. Here, Marie pursues a sensitive exploration: that of a perfumery based on the quality of materials, respect for silence and a form of asceticism in composition. Here, less becomes language.

Writing perfume like a breath

Far from accumulation, Marie claims a minimalist style, a "composition à l'italienne": a few materials, carefully chosen to let nature speak for itself. Flowers, wood, citrus, resins: she composes with what the earth has to offer, respecting its texture, its silence, its light. Her fragrances are open scores, leaving space for those who wear them.

The intimate collaboration between Marie Urban Le Febvre and Atelier Mignon

Marie Urban Le Febvre has designed five olfactory creations for Atelier Mignon, weaving a subtle link between the brand's universe and her own sensory writing. These fragrances reflect her ability to capture emotion with precision. Each fragrance reflects Atelier Mignon's poetic identity, while bearing Marie's recognizable signature: limpid compositions, delicate textures, balanced contrasts. Behind these creations lies a deep artistic complicity with the brand's founder, Jean-Baptiste Mignot-Mignon, with whom she shares a sensitive view of perfume as a form of intimate language.

Each of the five fragrances created for ATELIER MIGNON embodies the creative imprint of Marie Urban Le Febvre and promises a truly personal signature on your skin - an invitation to discover these vibrant, luminous fragrances on SCENTISSIME.

Between transmission and experimentation: a multi-faceted designer

Marie Urban Le Febvre doesn't just create for her brand. She also collaborates with museums, artists and researchers. She takes part in historical reconstructions, such as that of an 18th-century perfume for the German National Museum in Nuremberg, or immersive exhibitions (Pergamon Museum, Louvre Abu Dhabi). His sensory approach has led him to design olfactory re-education kits to help people with anosmia.

Always passing on

Marie now teaches atISIPCA, the school that trained her. She passes on rigor, curiosity and sensitivity. She is also General Secretary of the Osmothèque, an international perfume conservatory, and a member of the Société Internationale des Parfumeurs-Créateurs (SIPC). In each of her commitments, the desire to keep the memory of the profession alive and to open doors to the younger generations.

A free-spirited perfumer

Independent, intuitive and rigorous, Marie Urban Le Febvre composes with reality, without faking it. An aviation enthusiast, she is also a private pilot, navigating between sky and scent, in an approach where life and creation are inseparable.

Her work is just like her: elegant, quiet, radical without being flashy. Another way of being a perfumer. Another way of inhabiting the world.

Why we follow Marie Urban Le Febvre closely

Because she embodies what we like to stand for: free, precise, inhabited perfumery. Because her eye for materials, her refusal of the superfluous and her ability to make silence speak move us. Because she combines the rigor of a chemist with the intuition of an artist. And because behind each creation lies a rare posture: that of a perfumer who listens rather than imposes. At SCENTISSIME, we follow Marie Urban Le Febvre like we follow a golden thread: with attention, exacting standards, and the certainty that it leads somewhere beautiful.

Treat yourself to the excellence of her compositions, carefully selected by our curator. Free delivery throughout the European Union, free returns, personalized advice: SCENTISSIME accompanies you in your quest for the perfume that suits you best.

Would you like to feel Marie Urban Le Febvre's signature scent on your skin? Discover on SCENTISSIME the fragrances she has created for ATELIER MIGNON. Which one will sweep you off your feet?

The Creations of Marie Urban Le Febvre

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