I think you'll be hard-pressed to find an answer. If you check my thread titled Do You Know Of A Lure That Draws Deer In?, you will see there are 2 pages of replies and almost 300 views. With all that, I can recall only one person replying that he witnessed deer moving away from their regular path of travel, just to investigate the lure's source.

I wanted to know if people were using a product or products that moved deer away from what they were doing naturally, to come and make an alteration in their line of travel just to smell more of the lure.

So this sort of fits in with your question and as you can see, you're short on replies with several people reading the post. I had deer smell my lures and scents many times, but I was hunting in the deer's natural line of travel, so I can't say with any certainty that they wouldn't have gone their naturally already. Since I was on trails, the deer were already on it and traveling by and it was not the lure that brought them up a trail they were already going down.

I wish I could help you. Your curiosity is the $10,000 question...

"...what would be a good attractant to help encourage some deer to show..."

If you knew the answer to that, dear God my friend, people would be racing to your door with open wallets to learn that too. LOL!

Best of luck... and feel Blessed to have a son you can take out there and share life with. Good times!

iSnipe