Eau de Space

Capturing the smell of the high frontier in a bottle

According to people who have been there, space smells like "a burnt almond cookie" and "gunpowder." Or possibly "seared steak, raspberries, and rum." While those are hardly conventional scents for an everyday perfume, the concept of capturing the high frontier in a bottle was intriguing enough for me to help fund a Kickstarter campaign last July. The project had the added appeal of claiming to have extracted the fundamentals of Eau de Space from NASA via "determination, grit, a lot of luck, and a couple of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests."

Despite a great initial pitch, the perfume finally arrived after months of poor communication in what may be a metaphor for space exploration itself: extremely late, a bit banged up, and smelling unpleasantly of burning chemicals.

Comments

[Inigo Montoya]

I’ve always had this crazy notion that smells, much like sounds, travel through the air. No atmosphere equals no one can hear you screaming nor can they smell anything at all except the inside of their own space helmets.

[Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf]

Can't be so; smells are just chemicals triggering sensors in noses. Chemicals don't need air to travel. Noses won't survive long without air, maybe that's what you're thinking of.

I have heard this description before, of what space smells like, but I think always after a moon walk and taking off a space suit or helmet and smelling what dust was brought in. I don't know if it ever was said after just a space walk while in orbit.

[Formerly FreeRadical]

I thought they meant what the inside of the Space Station smells like. Because yeah, you won't smell anything in the vacuum of space. And nobody has actually had a chance to do that anyway.

I think it has to do with air recycled through charcol filters and the like.

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[D-Pizzle]

Yes, the smell adheres to the spacesuits after orbital space walks. There's a massive burning ball of hydrogen at the center of the solar system (yes, I know it's not actually "burning," pedants). The spacesuits have a different odor after space walks, but not before if they haven't been "outside." It's not the smell inside the space station.

[Brason Tay]

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[Don't look at me!]

Looks to me the author will fall for anything.
I wonder how many bridges she owns.

[Griffin3]

I have it from reliable sources you do NOT want to smell the inside of the ISS.

[Formerly FreeRadical]

Yeah, probably true. Or the inside of a space suit after a couple 8 hour spacewalks.

[Brandybuck]

I watched the video of the astronaut showing how to use the ISS toilet. So add that into the mix. No showering, no flush toilets, reliance of wetwipes for personal hygiene, plus the lack of ventilation. I imagine every time a space shuttle docks the guys are saying, "Yay! Fresh air!"

[Brandybuck]

Oh Katherine, I love you, but you know too well that one does not smell space. To quote a fragrance company that did something similar:

" Ok, well technically if you tried to smell outer space by going into outer space, then taking off the helmet of your spacesuit, things would go south for you pretty quickly. Since space is mostly a vacuum, a) there aren’t many molecules to smell, and b) the various fluids in your body would quickly equilibrate with the environment. The air in your lungs would expand violently, all the spit would evaporate out of your mouth, and then your blood would boil, so let me say it here: DON’T GO TRYING TO SMELL OUTER SPACE IN ACTUAL OUTER SPACE!!! "

[D-Pizzle]

"Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon."

[D-Pizzle]

They can use Phish's "Say it to me S.A.N.T.O.S." in the TV ads.

[Eeyore]

Eau de taint.

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