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Essential Oil Cover scent?

Jtaylor said:
I'm going to put a few drops of this in my wife's essential oil diffuser and use it as beard oil. Will report back later.
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Should prolly wait until it's her week. Be sure and tell her when she changes spark plugs to throw the used one in a zip lock and toss it in the fridge for you to use next deer season. Do you have any memorial request?
 
Oils are typically a punchline for people who aren't educated about them. I get it.

That being said, I wouldn't wear oils for any plants that weren't native to the area you are hunting. If the point is blending in, I wouldn't want to introduce some scent that the deer aren't used to. And I wouldn't go grab some $8 pine or fir EO off the shelf at some retail store. Probably cut with some sort of man-made fragrance.
 
id be hesitant to put anything on or near me to attract them with a scent, i dont even use doe in estrus, i try to keep all smells to a bare minimum when im in the woods
 
I typically buy a bottle of raccoon urine from the local trapping store. It seems to go bad in a season or so though. I haven’t tried it in the diffuser and my job requires me to shave, so no beard oil. It works phenomenal as a cover scent. I’ve always been suspect of adding a new smell, natural or not, to a deers environment. I had a C’mere deer pro staffer tell me once that when they first applied the product to a new area it would actually spook deer for a few days or even weeks. Once the deer decided it was OK they couldn’t keep them off of it. I remember c’mere deer smelled pretty strong. I have tried vanilla as a cover scent but had no pros or cons that I could attest to.
 
Red Beard said:
My wife swears by essential oils for just about everything. Our house is full of them. I love how some of them smell (cedarwood, etc.) and I've even taken to mixing a few as beard oils from time to time. However, all those beard oils get put away in SEP. I'm skeptical about how forest goats would react if I tromped through our bit of hardwoods wearing cedar, pine, fir, spruce, and cypress...
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Don’t forget Breathe and On Guard. Swamp Donkeys be like welp, smells like ole Clinton’s got a cold again. Let’s go this way.
 
So which ones would work for a pine and hardwood mix in the south?
 
Chickenhawk said:
I definitely believe in hunting the wind, but I'll will be giving this a shot this coming fall. I quit using store bought sprays and stuff years ago. Hate the chemical side of that. I often wonder what it was doing to me, also my equipment.
I think this could help and no extra junk in it. Thanks for posting the tip.
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Your very welcome. Let me know what you think after you try it? I got all oils, brown glass spray bottle, and soap on Amazon if that helps.
 
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CooterBrown said:
So which ones would work for a pine and hardwood mix in the south?
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From what I have seen and heard from others this will work anywhere there are woods. It smells like woods and the fall and earth. It is a pleasant smell. I think one reason it works is that is not a chemist version of scent, rather it is all made from real plants found growing in the woods. I think many of these plant smells are made from a very complex set of chemical compounds. I think the chemists try and refine it down to something simpler than the real thing and the deer's noses are too good and they detect something is not right. If you try it let me know what you think? Thanks
 
Jay_Disarray said:
id be hesitant to put anything on or near me to attract them with a scent, i dont even use doe in estrus, i try to keep all smells to a bare minimum when im in the woods
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It is not an attractant. It's a cover scent just to get you and your stuff to smell like the woods. But for sure each to his own methods. God bless and Happy Hunting.
 
Ckwilli said:
I typically buy a bottle of raccoon urine from the local trapping store. It seems to go bad in a season or so though. I haven’t tried it in the diffuser and my job requires me to shave, so no beard oil. It works phenomenal as a cover scent. I’ve always been suspect of adding a new smell, natural or not, to a deers environment. I had a C’mere deer pro staffer tell me once that when they first applied the product to a new area it would actually spook deer for a few days or even weeks. Once the deer decided it was OK they couldn’t keep them off of it. I remember c’mere deer smelled pretty strong. I have tried vanilla as a cover scent but had no pros or cons that I could attest to.
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Yeah my crazy brother in law used skunk scent for a while but his mother would not let him back in the house. He had to change in the garage. Man he smelled crazy bad. If that racoon scent is anything like that...ah no thanks. That's one thing nice with this it smells good. That smell you get when you dig for worms, the smell from digging in a rotting log, and pine tree smell. Roll that into one smell and that's the best way I can describe it. It smells very natural but it's not objectionable at all.
 
GetHomeSafe said:
It is not an attractant. It's a cover scent just to get you and your stuff to smell like the woods. But for sure each to his own methods. God bless and Happy Hunting.
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Absolutely, it's not for me, and if it works for you more power. Personally I'd be real hesitant to introduce any type of new scent in the woods. Good luck, I'll follow this thread to continue to hear others inputs though
 
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