Hi all, Does anyone else use a cover scent made from essential oils? If so what is your recipe? How do you find it works for you?
Here is the recipe I use:
Hunting spray with these oils as well. 4oz water 20 drops of cedarwood, 20 drops pine, 10 vetiver, 15 fir needle, 5 spruce, 5 Cypress. Use a glass dark colored spray bottle.
Spray boots, clothing, pack, bow. release, hat, saddle or stand, spurs or sticks, lineman ropes, tether, ...all.
I use this soap rather than hunters soap. It is unscented and I just add some essentials oils for a mild woods scent.
Hunters Body Wash, Quinn's Pure Castile Organic Liquid Soap. Add few drops of the same oils.
Deer have noses like bloodhounds and it only takes a few molecules per million for them to detect us so you have to hunt the wind. That said I have found this very helpful. I have tried some of the commercial clothing wash, so called fall scent. Bunch of chemicals combined a a lab. It smelled right to me but not to the deer. At least all these oils are made of stuff that actually grows in the woods. I have found it very helpful. The oils cost a bit. But once you have them you have enough to make gallons of spray. I mix 8oz. at a time. Shake before use. It actually is a pleasant woods smell.
Here is the recipe I use:
Hunting spray with these oils as well. 4oz water 20 drops of cedarwood, 20 drops pine, 10 vetiver, 15 fir needle, 5 spruce, 5 Cypress. Use a glass dark colored spray bottle.
Spray boots, clothing, pack, bow. release, hat, saddle or stand, spurs or sticks, lineman ropes, tether, ...all.
I use this soap rather than hunters soap. It is unscented and I just add some essentials oils for a mild woods scent.
Hunters Body Wash, Quinn's Pure Castile Organic Liquid Soap. Add few drops of the same oils.
Deer have noses like bloodhounds and it only takes a few molecules per million for them to detect us so you have to hunt the wind. That said I have found this very helpful. I have tried some of the commercial clothing wash, so called fall scent. Bunch of chemicals combined a a lab. It smelled right to me but not to the deer. At least all these oils are made of stuff that actually grows in the woods. I have found it very helpful. The oils cost a bit. But once you have them you have enough to make gallons of spray. I mix 8oz. at a time. Shake before use. It actually is a pleasant woods smell.
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