Yes, scent control is really important. Use only unscented soap, deodorant, shampoo. Treat your hunting clothes with unscented detergent.

You don't have to go out and buy all the comercial deer hunting products. You can just get regular unscented deodorant and soap, or wash your clothes in baking soda. Yet it is easier to find the comercial deer hunting products, sometimes.

Consider wher yo are placing your stand. You need to be aware of which way the wind usually blows and check it while on stand. You cad by wind floaters, or dust bottles or use some homemde device. I use a butane lighter and watch the flame and smoke. I also take a baggie with a milkweed pod in it. I pull out the floaters and break off the seed.

Also when placing your stand, you need to put it where you have something to blend into, not out in the open where you stick out like a sore thumb. Its always good to have cover behind you and a little in front.

Pay attention on stand. Be aware of what is going on around you. One of the biggest things that helps me is listening to the other wildlife. Birds and small mammals usually make some sort of warning call when they spot danger. Learn these sounds!

Learn them by walking through the woods and listening to how they react to you. Squirrels bark, chipmunks chirp and birds make their various warning calls. Listen to their reaction to you and remember them.

When you are sitting quietly on stand and you hear those same sounds, you know something is up in that direction. It might be fox or coyote,it might be another hunter , it might be a deer. You'll be ready!