interesting and disturbing discovery

[firecat]

I ordered some cloth menstrual pads from saucytots.com. When they came, there was a free gift in the package - a couple of gumdrop shaped things made of wax. I asked the owner what these were and she said they were "wax tarts" and you melt them in a "wax tart burner" to release fragrance. (The scent I got was called "Candy Cane.")

Google turns up loads of these wax tart things. I never knew.

The disturbing part is that many of the web sites featuring these wax tarts use "fragrance" as a transitive verb. "With our wax tarts, in your tart melter, you can fragrance a very large area for many, many hours before changing your tarts."

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[surelars.livejournal.com]

The disturbing part is that many of the web sites featuring these wax tarts use "fragrance" as a transitive verb

Well, it's a perfectly natural process, but I still get a jolt from each new one I encounter. This particular one doesn't sit well with me for some reason.

[brooksmoses]

Me, either. It's ... the sort of think I imagine being spoken by someone who is, in the words of a character in a long-forgotten book from my childhood, just "utterly too-too".