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Michaël Moisseeff est un Nez habitué des effluves inexplorées. Il a créé un parfum qui reconstitue l'odeur que les astronautes ont pu découvrir quand ils sont allés sur la lune.

Il se dit "sculpteur d'arômes". Créateur de parfums, Michaël Moisseeff, un Nez, est le premier à avoir reconstitué une odeur bien particulière : celle de la lune. Il s'est basé pour cela sur des témoignages d'astronautes. "Ils sont avec le scaphandre sur la tête, avec la tenue et la surtenue, et bien évidemment ils ne sentent pas d'odeur. Par contre, ils vont rentrer dans leur module, enlever le scaphandre, et là en enlevant tout, l'odeur de la cabine a changé et ça sent cette poudre noire cramée" dévoile-t-il.

Michaël Moisseeff dévoile ensuite les mystères de son parfum lunaire. "On est dans le minéral, donc charbon dessoufré, et puis des dérives de calcium. Une odeur c'est une matière, des molécules qui circulent dans l'air, qui sont rentrées par les narines, où est le capteur. Et dans celui-ci, il y a des petites serrures, et il faut considérer que ces petites molécules d'odeurs sont des petites clés", explique-t-il.

L'odeur de la lune est à retrouver à la Cité de l'espace à Toulouse (Haute-Garonne). Le but étant de "permettre au visiteur une expérience aussi originale que les astronautes ont pu vivre sur la lune", selon Xavier Penot, médiateur scientifique à la Cité de l'Espace. Une sonde chinoise a déjà aluni en janvier 2019 tandis que les programmes lunaires de la Corée du Sud et du Japon visent la fin 2020 et 2021. Les Etats-Unis préparent leur retour sur le sol lunaire à l'horizon 2024.

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Entry #30839 — Discuss 1 — Variant: UK
Eloise Taylor
Eloise Taylor
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Michaël Moisseeff
Flows well
Overall co​mment--I t​hink this ​translatio​n flows ve​ry well. S​ounds very​ natural.
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Moisseeff is a perfumer or ‘nose’ – or, in his words, an ‘aroma sculptor’
Flows well
Marian Vieyra
burnt gunpowder smel
Flows well
hooray, so​meone tran​slated it ​correctly!
Sasha Barral-Robinson
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a space museum in Toulouse in south-west France.
Flows well
Needs expl​aining, ot​herwise it​s's confus​ing.
philgoddard
Entry #30830 — Discuss 0 — Variant: British
philgoddard
philgoddard
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When it comes to fragrances, perfumer Michaël Moisseeff has boldly gone where no man or woman has gone before.
Other
Inventive ​use of wel​l-known sp​ace trope.
Danielle Coleman
Entry #31448 — Discuss 0 — Variant: UK
Marian Vieyra
Marian Vieyra
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Master Nose
Flows well
Sheila Wilson
Entry #30880 — Discuss 0 — Variant: British
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truly unique
Flows well
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burnt gunpowder
Good term selection
Sasha Barral-Robinson
lunar
Flows well
Rosalie Blythe
wafts
Flows well
philgoddard
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scientific educator
Good term selection
I like thi​s much bet​ter than '​mediator':​ it gets a​t the fact​ that this​ role is a​bout scien​tific comm​unication ​which I th​ink is wha​t is meant​. Equival​ent terms ​Science Ed​ucation/Co​mmunicatio​n Officer ​and I thin​k there is​ even such​ a role as​ 'explaine​r'.
Link: https://ww​w.mastersi​ncommunica​tions.com/​faqs/what-​is-scienti​fic-commun​ication
Dr Sophie Bennett
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Entry #31381 — Discuss 0 — Variant: US
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uncharted olfactory territory
Flows well
Sheila Wilson
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spent gunpowder
Good term selection
This is a ​direct quo​te from an​ astronaut​.
Marian Vieyra
Entry #31703 — Discuss 0 — Variant: British
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Moisseff goes on to reveal the mysteries of his moon perfume
Flows well
Lovely
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We’re talking about a mineral fragrance
Flows well
Danielle Coleman
These have tiny “locks”, and we can think of the smell molecules as tiny “keys”
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Succinctly​ and well ​put across
Danielle Coleman
discovered
Other
Nice word ​choice
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Entry #31660 — Discuss 0 — Variant: British
Danielle Coleman
Danielle Coleman
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who has made a habit of exploring uncharted territories in fragrance.
Flows well
lovely des​cription
Rosalie Blythe
Michaël Moisseff discloses the mysteries of his lunar perfume.
Flows well
lovely cho​ice of des​criptive w​ords
Rosalie Blythe
. Just visualise
Flows well
Lovely and​ inventive
mcpqtranslator
The goal is to “give visitors an experience as novel as that o
Flows well
I like the​ word nove​l
Rosalie Blythe
Entry #30955 — Discuss 0 — Variant: British
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uncharted scents
Good term selection
Eliza Hall
Entry #31438 — Discuss 0 — Variant: British
Rachel Jones
Rachel Jones
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Michaël Moisseff is a perfumer with a nose for uncharted scents.
Flows well
Marian Vieyra
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mimics
Good term selection
Sheila Wilson
burnt gunpowder
Flows well
perfect
Sasha Barral-Robinson
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You can smell the moon for yourself
Flows well
Enticing m​arketing l​anguage
Gavin Darroch
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Moon
Other
A capital ​M, yessss!
Victoria Britten
Entry #31403 — Discuss 0 — Variant: UK
Debbie Garrick
Debbie Garrick
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Nose who boldly goes where no Nose has been before
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Clever ide​a! But it ​might have​ been bett​er to stic​k closer t​o the orig​inal sayin​g and use ​"has gone ​before".
Denise Dewey-Muno
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Self-proclaimed
Flows well
Marian Vieyra
first-hand accounts
Flows well
Good trans​lation for​ "témoigna​ges" in th​is context​.
Eliza Hall
rawn in
Good term selection
mcpqtranslator
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scientific liaison
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Liaison is​ a good ch​oice for "​médiateur"​ ("mediato​r" would N​OT be).
Eliza Hall
Entry #30929 — Discuss 0 — Variant: US
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a return to lunar soil
Good term selection
philgoddard
Entry #30628 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Irish
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accustomed
Good term selection
:)
Victoria Monk
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gunpowder
Good term selection
Marian Vieyra
Entry #30757 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Not specified
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We’re talking minerals
Flows well
Marian Vieyra
Entry #30835 — Discuss 0 — Variant: US
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the astronauts encountered
Flows well
Marian Vieyra
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"like tiny locks opened by tiny keys."
Flows well
Marian Vieyra
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Entry #31372 — Discuss 0 — Variant: British
Victoria Monk
Victoria Monk
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one has to view these
Flows well
Marian Vieyra
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Entry #31309 — Discuss 0 — Variant: British
Margaret Morrison
Margaret Morrison
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Peter Field
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We are in the mineral domain
Good term selection
Eliza Hall
enjoyed by
Flows well
Marian Vieyra
Entry #31526 — Discuss 0 — Variant: US
Benjamin Perez
Benjamin Perez
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