I am not a experienced deer hunter but i do know that scent elimination is very important. I’ve tried scent waffers, scent killers and even scent killer detergent. somehow last week a group of six doe came by me and still notice me before they even saw me. they scattered when one picked up my scent. am i just not spraying enough scent killers, or what?
Just remember that you can NEVER be 100% scent free. With that said you can do your best to try and be scent free by using those products you mentioned, plus using the scent free body soaps and deoderants as well as using the scent free suits like scent lock! If you can, hang your clothes outside and spray them down, use rubber boots whenever possible, try to avoid wearing your clothes in your vehicle by changing into your hunting clothes when you reach your spot. Just a couple of ideas you can try to keep as scent free as possible! Good luck 
what do you guys do about sweats, you know when you are climbing that tree and breaking a sweat.
No matter what – always pay attention to the wind direction. It’s also not uncommon for me to take a scent free bag with me on my hunts. Dress very cool walking out to your stand and then put on the rest of your clothes when you arrive at your tree followed by spraying down.
A lot of mistakes i see guys make is driving to a hunting spot w/ their clothes on 
I use Scent Lok and keep all my clothes in a rubber bin along w/ my rubber boots. The only thing i wear in the truck that i also hunt w/ is my hat….but i spray it down pretty good when i get ready. The biggest thing i think you can do is 1)only hunt a stand that has a preferred wind direction, 2)shower w/ scent eliminating body washes, 3)keep your hunting clothes in a bag or rubber bin and only try to open it when youre going hunting
All of the above plus change into the boots your going to hunt in after you get out of your vehicle. I always always use coon urin on my boots and it works. I’ve had deer come right down the same trail that I walked in on and never spooked, regular shoes and they will. Regular shoes pick up everything that you walk across and then that smell ends up on the trails and elsewhere. Being meticulos about washing in the shower with descent and then drying down with a descented towel, try to descent everything. I even put a descented towel on the car seat befor I leave home even though I change into my hunting clothes at the timber. I’ve had deer stand down wind of me befor and never smell me, it dosen’t always happen like that but being cautious helps alot. When changeing into your hunting clothes make sure to use a descented plastic bag to put your regular clothes into instead of your hunting clothes bag. Stepping into a cowpie then wipe it off on the ground befor you walk to your stand helps too. Remember to descent the washer befor washing your clothes and especially the drier, fabric softeners stick out like a sore thumb for deer to smell. Wash your clothes in a descented washer by running the washer through a complete rinse cycle with a good brand of descenting washing compound, then wash your clothes and hang to dry on the porch or in the garage or on the clothesline, underwear, longjohns, socks everything but your hunting boots. Put you clothes into a descented plastic bag when thier dry.
Put your clothes in some sort of bin, I use a hard plastic one with a snap-on top. Go and cut off some oak branches and let them dry. Put your clothes, along with the oak branches and leaves, in the bin together. This will give you clothes that acorny, oaky, smell that will actually last for some time.
one thing I do with my rubber boots is fill them with corn i leave the corn in them untill i hunt again then i dump it out in a box and fill them back up when i return seems to work good because the rubber boots i wear seem to sweat alot.
I agree with others.
Wash your clothes in the right detergent, wash your hair and body with the proper soap. Use proper deodorant. Store your clothes in a good container. If you are not using carbon clothes at all then yes, put in scent wafers into your container. If you are using scent absorbing clothes do not use any type of cover scent on your body, clothes or equipment. It will defeat the purpose of having scent absorbing clothes. I change into my hunting clothes all the way down to except my undies at my hunting location. I change into my undies after my shower. Once I’m up wind of the vehicle I change into just what I need to stay warm enough on the walk in. I spray down my boots, equipment, clothes and pop a scent killing gum into my mouth. I pay special attention spraying down my head, hat, hands and feet. I walk slowly to my stand to avoid sweating. Once I’m at my stand and cooled down from the walk I will throw additional layers on to stay warm. Spray down again with scent killing spray and when I did not wear Scent Blocker I would pray not to be busted by an animal down wind. Now that I wear it, I expect to beat a deer’s nose unless I did not follow once of the steps above. Some conditions are tough early season, but come the end of October usually the weather is cool enough that I do beat a deer’s nose 90% of the time.
It is a painful and tedious process I go through, but when you have a deer down wind of you it makes it all worth it.
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