Come Early, Be Loud, Wear Perfume

UT-inspired fragrances let Longhorn fans wear team spirit in a whole new way

Early season football games aren’t always the most pleasant, usually due to the lingering effects of your typical Texas summer. After a tailgate session and standing for several hours watching a game under the scorching sun, you won’t exactly be at your freshest.

Thankfully, Masik Collegiate Fragrances released a new line of perfumes for both men and women inspired by the University of Texas. Simply called The University of Texas Men's Cologne and Women's Perfume, these new products are helping fans smell better than barbecue and spilled beer at the end of gameday.

The New York-based company specializes in creating fragrances inspired — and officially licensed — by 19 different universities including Texas A&M, Clemson, LSU and Oklahoma. To develop the fragrance for UT, Masik focuses on our love of all things orange.

For the ladies, the perfume is a citrusy and fruity chypre, with top notes of bergamot, sweet orange, ruby redcurrant, along with a mix of orange blossom, mimosa flowers and jasmine sambac. With a more Asian inspiration, the men’s fragrance features top notes of pimento berry, mandarin pulp, rosemary sprigs, with middle and base notes combining English lavender, warm orange flower, aged bourbon accord and golden amber.

The University Co-op is currently the only local retailer selling the line, but the fragrances are also available to purchase on the Masik website (complete with a handy diagram outlining the inspiration). A 1.7-ounce bottle of either the perfume or cologne will set you back $39.50. Both are available now, just in time to grab a bottle before heading out to the annual Orange-White Scrimmage on Saturday, April 19.

The Texas Perfume features a fruity chypre with notes of sparkling bergamot and sweet orange.

Masik Collegiate Fragrances Women's perfume bottle UT Texas Longhorns

Photo courtesy of Masik Collegiate Fragrances Facebook

The Texas Perfume features a fruity chypre with notes of sparkling bergamot and sweet orange.

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From catwalk to moonwalk

See the Prada spacesuit NASA astronauts will wear on the moon

Photo courtesy of Axiom Space

The Prada suit, which fits men and women, will enable astronauts to perform a spacewalk for at least eight hours.

Fashion met the future as Houston-based Axiom Space and luxury fashion designer Prada revealed the design of the spacesuit that NASA astronauts will wear during their upcoming journey to the moon.

Axiom, a space exploration company, and Prada, a global luxury brand, debuted their design of the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) spacesuit at the International Astronautical Congress in Milan, Italy.

Set for 2026, NASA’s Artemis III mission will be the first “staffed” lunar landing since Apollo 17 in 1972. Four astronauts have been selected for the 30-day mission.

Components of the white, gray, and red spacesuit include:

Lights
HD camera
Cellular communications
“Endurance athlete”-style nutrition
Backpack with portable life support system
Custom-made gloves
Boots designed to withstand lunar temperatures and rough terrain

Axiom Space Prada spacesuit The spacesuit work is being performed under a nearly $1.3 billion NASA contract.Photo courtesy of Axiom Space

Axiom says the suit, which fits men and women, will enable astronauts to perform a spacewalk for at least eight hours. It’s geared toward lunar missions and low-earth-orbit missions.

“The AxEMU has significant advancements in safety, mobility, sizing, and performance,” the company says.

During development of the suit, Axiom placed a dark cover on the outer layer to conceal the suit’s proprietary technology. However, the suits worn on the lunar surface will be made from a white material that reflects heat, and protects astronauts from extreme high temperatures and lunar dust.

The spacesuit work is being performed under a nearly $1.3 billion NASA contract.

“Going beyond our limits is one of the company’s values that perfectly reflects the spirit of the Prada brand and my parents’ vision. I’m very proud of the result we’re showing today, which is just the first step in a long-term collaboration with Axiom Space,” Lorenzo Bertelli, Prada’s chief marketing officer and head of corporate social responsibility, says in a news release.

Axiom says the suit is near the final stage of development. Already, it has gone through testing by astronauts and engineers at Axiom, NASA, and SpaceX facilities.

Among the tests were reduced-gravity simulations at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston and underwater simulations at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, also in Houston.

The suit will undergo an in-depth design review in 2025.

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This story first appeared on our sister site InnovationMap.

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