What does the moon smell like? Now you can smell her perfume.

Michael Moiseff Retired consultant from the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse in France, who is currently employed fragrance sculptor. This means that it is able to produce the fragrance of objects and places without the need to include the substances present in them. For this reason, when they offered to reproduce what does the moon smell like he had no doubts about the exhibition.

When creating the fragrance, the testimonies of several people who stepped on our satellite were used. They all went beyond apollo ships dressed in wetsuits that did not allow them to smell any smell. However, when they got back inside, no matter how hard they tried to clean their suits, some kind of sticky lunar dust always stuck to them.

And the most curious thing is that when they were asked how the moon smells, they all gave the same answers. Buzz Aldrinfor example, he said that he smelled burnt coal or fireplace. Charlie DukeApollo 16, explained that it reminded him of the smell of gunpowder. AND Gene Cernanfrom Apollo 17, indicated that to him it was like the smell that remains when shoot a carbine. Curiously, the latter also took the liberty of trying it and said that it was very tasty for him. But, leaving that aside, everyone agreed on something like a smell, and this is what Moiseev based on.

What does the moon smell like?

At first, when checking that all astronauts evoked the smell of gunpowder when they smelled moon dust, there was a real stir. Could it be that this powder was explosive?

However, samples that have been analyzed on Earth show that in reality it compound It has nothing to do with gunpowder and cannot be considered explosive. But then why did everyone answer the same question, how does the moon smell?

There are many doubts about this, although most experts believe that this, more than the smell of the moon, must be the result of reaction produced by the ingress of dust into lunar module oxygenated environment in which the astronauts took refuge. In fact, samples that have reached Earth do not smell of anything, so this is a likely hypothesis. Nevertheless, for Moiseev, spirits must have a powder background, which was mentioned by the first moon rovers.

Very interesting job

The fragrance will be presented in SpaceCityexhibition to be installed in Museum of Toulouse. But this is not the only interesting work of the aroma sculptor.

For example, he often works in wine companies, as it produces fragrances that are tested by its employees. It reproduces the smell of different grape varieties, as well as soils, minerals, vegetable and floral notes that can be found in wine.
It also reproduced the scent of distant places like rainforests. Andaman Islandsin the Indian Ocean.

As he himself explained in Nature, uses a distillation apparatus to extract substances by distillation, a rotary evaporator to remove solvents, a very accurate measuring scale for chemicals, and a file with 3000-4000 reference odors. With all this Maybe sculpt almost any flavor. It is clear that he was the perfect person to show us what the Moon smells like, even though he never traveled there. This is part of the magic of perfumery.