For all my curiosity about cosmology and obsession with shows on the History and Discovery Channel about the Universe I realized that I've never considered the question of whether the outer space has a smell or odor. Well, now I have some idea thanks to this NASA astronaut:
It is hard to describe this smell; it is definitely not the olfactory equivalent to describing the palette sensations of some new food as "tastes like chicken." The best description I can come up with is metallic; a rather pleasant sweet metallic sensation. It reminded me of my college summers where I labored for many hours with an arc welding torch repairing heavy equipment for a small logging outfit. It reminded me of pleasant sweet smelling welding fumes. That is the smell of space.
Mmm. O' delicious metallic fumes.