The Story
Why it exists.
The beginning
Bliss Me arrived in 2018 as part of Urban Scents' Vintage Spirit series, a limited collection that looked back at mid-century fragrance archetypes and rewrote them through the house's lens. Marie Le Febvre composed this one, pulling from the floral-green wave of the 1970s, drawing on galbanum-heavy green florals that had once been a department store staple. The Vintage Spirit series was Marie Urban Le Febvre's project of treating those old formulas as raw material rather than museum pieces, running them through the present to see what still held up under modern noses. Bliss Me specifically engaged the green floral head-on, with the stated intention of making it wearable across a broader register than its traditional one.
The composition's defining move is the woody overdose: loading the traditional green-floral structure with enough cedar, sandalwood, and Vertofix to give the scent a drier, more grounded character. Galbanum and basil handle the green aromatic crackle up top, the kind of sharp resinous snap that announces the genre immediately. Jasmine and rose bring the floral body, familiar territory for anyone who's worn a classic. Then the woody backbone does the real work, absorbing the sweetness until the whole thing reads more architectural than pretty.
The evolution
The opening hits with galbanum's almost bitter green, basil curling underneath it, and for the first fifteen minutes the scent reads almost exclusively as that sharp, crushed-stem character. There's no mistaking what leads. By the thirty-minute mark the jasmine and rose begin surfacing through the green, but the woods are already pushing up from below, so the floral never gets to fully bloom the way it might in a classic green floral. Instead it gets compressed, filtered through cedar. An hour in, the green has mostly receded, and the composition settles into a cedar-sandalwood phase with rose still humming underneath. The sandalwood gives it a soft, almost creamy texture that the sharper opening never promised. The drydown is where the Vertofix earns its keep.
Cultural impact
Bliss Me sits among contemporary green-floral compositions that engage with the genre's 1970s roots without leaning on pure nostalgia. Reviewers who tested it noted that it wears comfortably across gender lines, which connects to the woody overdose intended to make the composition read as more androgynous than its vintage predecessors. It carries the unmistakable galbanum signature of the green-floral tradition, but the woody backbone keeps it from reading as a period piece or a costume.
The House
Urban ScentsUrban Scents is a German niche perfume house that builds its catalogue around bold, narrative‑driven scents. Since its first launch in 2016 the brand has offered a steady stream of fragrances that mix classic ingredients with unexpected twists. The line includes Desert Rose, Gunpowder Cologne, Singular Oud and the recent Vegan Musk, each presented in a clean, modern bottle that reflects the house’s understated aesthetic.
The Creator
Marie Le FebvreHer style resists ornamentation. Where other perfumers build complexity through accumulation, Urban Le Febvre favors clarity and space, constructing fragrances around a single strong idea executed with precision.
