Eugenol
File sealed
The detectives are still writing this one up. The poster and the facts are below; the film and the interrogation room open soon.
Booking photographs
The suspect, from its real atomic coordinates. Drag to turn it. Height chart in nanometers, ruled every 0.05 nm. A whole clove is about fifteen million times longer.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Eugenol. Most of oil of cloves.
- Height
- 0.77 nm, standing up.
- Weight
- 0.27 zeptograms
- Smell
- Cloves. Also the dentist’s office: it goes into some dental cements.
- Associates
- Nutmeg, cinnamon, basil and bay leaves.
- Habits
- Male orchid bees collect it and wear it to show off.
- Known for
- The first vanilla flavor made in a factory started out as it.
- Origins
- The dried flower buds of a tree from the Spice Islands.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked CLOVE in the fridge at HQ.
of them in a teaspoon of ground cloves, give or take.
You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Eugenol, No. 44. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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