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."

Comments

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Is it because of proximity to something else? If I buy fragrance-free dryer sheets at the store, they'll still have a faint fragrance from the other boxes around them. If I buy them from the delivery company, they're fine.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I'm sensitive enough to scent that unless they were *really* well packaged, I'd get a headache just from opening the box. I'd *definitely* get a headache after opening the "gift" to see what it was. And then I'd probably have to wash the pads that just came before even using them, which would annoy me. Sometimes it takes me two washings to get the fragrance out of things (for example, if my mom buys me something at a yard sale), and sometimes it won't come out well enough at all.

(I don't buy dryer sheets at all, because something in even the unscented ones gives me a rash.)

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Well, generally, you're supposed to wash fabric items before you wear them to make sure all sizing, etc., is taken out.

I got an item from Making It Big yesterday and the Priority Mail packaging smelled faintly of spice of some kind. The top was fine inside, so I think the package must have been next to something smelly in transit.