✔DROP!! A TALE OF THE FRAGRANCE PRINCESS

Volume 5, Act 47: Entering the Big Bookcase Part 2

Like the first floor, the basement was filled with many books.

And the plants corner was arranged in an easy to understand way; ornamental plants shelf, wild grasses shelf, and trees and shrubs shelf.

First, Cordelia chose a book from that selection and flipped through it. Then, she returned it to the shelf and took another book. She repeated that process several times.

(The contents are a little different, but it seems that the books my family has on plants are also excellent.)

The Big Bookcase has an overwhelming amount of books in other fields, but for plants, the Pameradia collection is just as wonderful The moment she thought that.

Clove?

Cordelia, who had stopped turning the pages, widened her eyes at the nostalgic herb name. She steady looked at the picture of the tree drawn next to the name and the drawing of the leaves. Theres probably no mistake. This is the same Clove that I know, which I havent been able to confirm exists here.

(Of course, I wont know until I get my hands on the real herb)

Clove was the main ingredient in herbal medicine, and was called caryophyllus clove in Japan.1)

Because its scent could still be strongly smelled from a hundred miles away, it was called the hundred-mile incense or caryophyllus clove. It often appeared in history in my previous world.

For example, in Chinas Han Dynasty, the ministers would hold the clove in their mouth to perfume their breath during audiences with the emperor, and some say that in the Age of Discovery, the spanish king ordered the explorer, Magellan, to make a voyage to secure routes for cloves.

When she learnt about the Age of Discovery in school, she heard that they had specially picked pepper out of all the spices, and its value was the same as gold, and honestly, she was surprised to find out that clove was ten times more valuable than pepper in Europe at that time.

(Im sure that cloves were only produced in Maluku Islands in those days, and the price was high because of its rarity Did I remember correctly?)

Such cloves were popular amongst royalty and nobles and were served at the end of parties with sugary sweets, before the spice boom.

There were many other things, including records of it being used to prevent rust on Japanese swords, but in the age that Cordelia lived, most people knew the scent from dental clinics, due to the clove oils.

If such a clove exists in this world, then I want to confirm its existence first. Cordelia thought as she read where it grew and was surprised.

This is part of Nirupama-obaasamas fief.

I cant believe that cloves grow in Nirupama-obaasamas fief!

Cordelia couldnt help but think.

Weltoria, where Nirupama rules, is a relatively warm area located to the southeast of the royal capital, but the temperature wasnt as high as Maluku Islands.

(However, even in the mountains near the royal capital, seasonal plants grow all year round due to the magic in the earth, so its not weird if theres a place influenced by magic in her fief.)

For the time being, I want to confirm this with Nirupama-obaasama the next time I see her. No, I should send her a greeting letter before I meet her. She might not know about cloves themselves, but if I ask her about it, then she might think about it as some kind of benefit instead of a request from her niece. Shes a lover of my essential oils. Im sure shell investigate this for me.

It might be difficult to turn it into a good business opportunity, like in the Age of Discovery, but I can probably increase my essential oil variations