the key to cover scents is to use a cover scent that is in the area you are hunting. this is where alot of people shoot themselves in the foot. if you use a scent that they are not used to then it will not necessarilyspook them but it will make them cautios and that could make the deer not show itself till dark. the best thing to use is scentlok. scent ilimination is the key. to be succesful you want to iliminate human scent and wait on the deer to come to you. trying to atract deer is about the hardest way to hunt unless you are baiting them and i think that is just plain lazy. if your going to do that then you might as well just use a spotlight.