The smell of space that NASA created to prepare astronauts for their missions beyond Earth’s atmosphere is being turned into a perfume. As the result of a successful Kickstarter campaign organized by Matt Richmond, the scent of space, created decades ago by NASA to ready astronauts for their missions, is being converted into a perfume — Eau de Space — that will be mass produced. According to Richmond, this smell has been off limits to everyone but astronauts for years, but “Through sheer determination, grit, a lot of luck, and a couple of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, we got it out.” Expert perfumers helped create this fragrance to ensure that it accurately replicates the real deal. Chemist Steve Pearce — the same person NASA sought out in 2008 to develop the original scent — was recruited to make the perfume. When struggling to describe to CNN what this space scent smells like, Richmond said that “Astronauts describe the smell as a mix of gunpowder, seared steak, raspberries and rum.”