How is the scent of space? The astronomer in the perfume industry tries to discover this

After a long profession to create the designed perfumes, Marina Parsinella decided to turn her nose into the universe.

The university’s perfume designer joined in 2015 to study planetary science. She used to take lessons in astronomical chemistry – chemical makeup for outer space – when she realized that she could marry her emotions.

“Whenever I see something new, the first question is: I wonder how an aroma emites.” As it happens Host Nil Köksal.

“One day I thought: Actually, this molecule that I am studying? I have in my perfume laboratory. And this smell that I imagine?

Barceenilla is now a doctoral researcher at Westminster University in London, England. When you do not explore the feasibility of life on Mars, it re -creates the scent of the space, starting from the sulfur smell of the deepest clouds on Jupiter, to an alcohol -like punch in the middle of the Milky Way.

Four of these stellar scents are now available for public inhalation at the London Museum of Natural History, as part of the ongoing exhibition: Space: Can life exist outside Earth?

“Antiseptic”, but like gunpowder?

So how is the scent of space?

“I don’t think its smell is very good in general,” said Parsinilla.

Those who know can witness. Canadian astronaut Julie Payet, upon his return from the International Space Station, Tell CBC News in 2009 The smell of “cold” and “antiseptic” emit.

“I opened the hole after six hours of walking in space. The entire flight area was exposed to space emptiness throughout those hours. So when I opened the door, I smelled what was a kind of purity.”

“It was not a cleaner, but it was definitely like the Smell type in the hospital and thought,” Wow, this is the scent of the space. “I thought about it more than that, I thought:” Wow, this is a smell of it, because it may not have anything there, not a single microbe or anything. “

Meanwhile, Canadian astronaut Chris Philseld described that in 2013, he and many others on the station were informed of the smell of a “burning meat slice” and “gunpowder” in airlines.

“Not exactly the spring garden,” He said in the Canadian Space Agency video.

Barceenilla says that when it comes to space aroma, it really depends on what you mean specifically.

“Most of the space is very empty and … it will not really split,” she said. “But when you reach certain planets or satellites, or when you go to a molecular cloud where we find high concentrations of different gases and microscopy, we can then find molecules and chemical compounds that have an odor.”

Parsinilla says she has created 25 scents since she started doing this work in 2017.

As for the museum exhibition, it collected the smell of Mars, which is its scientific specialization; Titan, a large moon revolving around Saturn the planet; Banu, asteroid; And the land as it was about 3.5-4 billion years ago, when life has just started.

She said: “The early land has a bit unpleasant smell. It is a mixture of dirt scent, like what you get when it rains, but also with the smell that you get from different microbial strains.”

“One of the smells you get is a type of sulfur scent that enters there too. This is somewhat stinking.”

She admits that any of her creations can verify facts, in itself.

“In space, you cannot smell, so it will always be impossible. We do not have air that we can breathe, so this is completely not like.” “But what I am trying to do is re -create the chemistry that we find in different places in space.”

“The more Benteen rises, the more people love it to smell it.”

Parcenilla brought its smells to schools to teach children, and also has an opportunity to see people interacting with them in the museum.

“I always thought that people would be a little afraid of things with bad smell, but no, this is the best,” she said. “The more unpleasant smell, the more people love it, the more their laughter and the more questions they ask about this.”

She says that this curiosity is the main point.

She said: “It is about making the space closer to Earth, and among the people is to open their minds and understand that all we have in space there is also ended here on Earth.”

Although the final limits may seem, Barceenilla says there is nothing really unfamiliar, at least from a sham perspective.

Jupiter inner clouds? Persinilla BBC News tells It is full of ammonia and sulfur, which is something that you may find in fertilizers, from which the smell of corrupt eggs emanates.

Our galaxy center? You will find Formate Ethyl, which is a common vessel in the fruit, from which a smell may emit, at best, Like a rumAnd in the worst case, such as a nail polish remover.

“We are part of the entire great universe,” said Parsinella. “There is this saying that is about all of us, Stardest, and that’s true. All we have done, and all that we smell here on Earth, has originally came from space.”