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I've been using Sawyers Permethrin but I really dislike the smell on my clothes. Pretty sure the deer can smell it too. I hunt areas in southern New York that are infested with ticks and I'm going to keep using permethrin but does anyone know if there's something to do about the smell? My clothes are made of synthetic materials (soft shell and fleece type fabrics) and I'm wondering if it's reacting to the substance.

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Once it's thoroughly dry, I don't smell the permethrin. My nose isn't the best anymore, after mant years in a print shop. But the Mrs, who can smell a ladybug fart at 100 yards, gave my treated hunting clothes the sniff test, and said it all just snells like dirt. 

I keep all my hunting clothes in airtight totes. In the bottom of each tote is a pillow case, half filled with dried leaves. Whenever I open a tote, all I  smell is that leaves/woods smell. 

No matter what we do, if a deer is downwind, they will smell us! But anything we can do to keep our scent to a minimum. And perhaps mask it a bit with natural smells, does seem to help......sometimes.

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Ive never smelt anything when I use it on my clothes. Its well worth the scent if it did have it though. You're breath carrys more scent than it could anyway

What he said!!! If anything add a cover scent to your treated clothes but I never noticed anything after it dries


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I'd cover my clothes in fresh gasoline if it guaranteed no ticks.

I would not hunt NY without this stuff. Lyme disease sucks.

As others have mentioned any faint odor is going to have a finite life, so once dried it's not going to last long. Spray your clothes and leave them outdoors for a few days :)

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