Years ago I use to keep my hunting clothes in our goat barn worked GREAT...until...I had a pack of coyotes come in on me and circle me within 10 yrds for a couple, as I walked in in the dark. Scared me so bad I momentarily forgot I had my gun in my hand. When the first crossed in front of me as the second came up from behind I shook the action on my shot gun and they moved off and I ran... the pack then circled the ridges in front and behind my stand calling to each other...No more scents on my clothes. I called our DEC and they said ..ya well you were breakfast.... baking soda and hunter wash...Being where everyone wood burns I may get out the bee smoker...
I’d say even around apple trees it would be best to smell like nothing. My belief on cover scents is simple. You ever spray air freshener after a #2? I bet the bathroom smell went from simply crap to a crap covered in cologne. There was a study where they put a person freshly bathed in no scent soap and wearing rubber boots and clean ozone treated hunting clothes in a plywood box that had a 20 minute ozone bath, the same room had three similar boxes with nothing in them, they then released a scent hound into the room and it found the hunter in less than 30 seconds... if a dog can do that imagine what a deer smells. Play the wind and stay clean and scent free as possible...
