There are many you can choose from Apple is one of them ,acorn,pine and dirt scent's as well. What I've found is that if your using a scent such as pine or apple and there are no pine or apple tree's, then you are putting the deer in a defensive mode, since they are aware what type of smell's are in an area that they frequent. If there are no apple tree's, and they smell apple's! they'll know that it's not normal.When I first started bowhunting and using different scent's. I learned this when I had a buck coming into a field from a trail,he was fine as he neared my stand. I had pine scent on and it stopped him in his track's ,there were no pine tree's in the area ,as it turned out the buck took 2 step's directly back and then bolted back from where he came from. The buck never looked up, but he did have his nose in the air scent checking .This happened again using another scent.This is just my opinion ,I 've had a few avid bowhunter's tell me what I was doing wrong, because at that point I had no clue,all I use now is a scent that smell's like dirt that I picked up at Wall Mart and I've never had those reaction's since. I've been picked off but I don't believe it was the scent I use that got me busted ,I think it was slight movement.

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