Linalool
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. About 90,000 of them end to end would span the width of a human hair.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Linalool, or linalol. “Coriandrol” in the food trade.
- Height
- 0.86 nm, standing up.
- Weight
- 0.26 zeptograms
- Build
- Wiry. Eight carbons in a row, a double bond near each end.
- Smell
- Lavender, a little woody. Its mirror twin, in coriander seed, smells sweeter.
- Marks
- Noses catch it at under one part per billion.
- Associates
- Over 200 kinds of plants, hops and basil among them.
- Known for
- Working in soap, shampoo and laundry detergent.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked LAVENDER in the fridge at HQ.
of them in a half-ounce bottle of lavender oil, give or take.
You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Linalool, No. 82. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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