Scent free clothes now smell like burned leaves

[fr0sty]

I washed my hunting clothes in scent fee laundry detergent and then hung them on the line last Sunday. Yesterday, someone in the local vicinity was burning the leaves. Now my clothes smell like smoke. Not terrible, but if I can smell it I know the deer can.

I may have time to spray them with scent eliminator and hang them in the sun again today for a couple hours. It would make getting ready all the more rushed though.

Do you think the smoke odor will alert any swamp donkeys to my presence when hunting this weekend?

[chippy]

just put your clothes in a pile of leaves.. that's what I always do.

[Shoot2Kill]

I washed my hunting clothes in scent fee laundry detergent and then hung them on the line last Sunday. Yesterday, someone in the local vicinity was burning the leaves. Now my clothes smell like smoke. Not terrible, but if I can smell it I know the deer can.

I may have time to spray them with scent eliminator and hang them in the sun again today for a couple hours. It would make getting ready all the more rushed though.

Do you think the smoke odor will alert any swamp donkeys to my presence when hunting this weekend?

I see all of this blaze orange attire every year hanging outside for a week prior to gun season - why? This week I saw it all hanging out there on Tuesday when it was raining because guys just leave it out for a week, car exhaust, burning leaves, getting wet and smelling "stale" lots of things make it's way into your clothing while hanging outside when you think they are "scent free".

Wash in scent free soap, dry with either no drying sheet or the earth scent you can get, put in a rubber made tub full of leaves/sticks/dirt at the bottom and be done with it. Put them on when you get to your hunting spot, take them off before you get in the truck and back into the tub they go, done.

If you have time to hang them in the sun for a couple hours today, I'd say rewash them, get a rubber made tub, rake some leaves for 30 seconds, forget the sun today, and go kill a giant tomorrow!

[sticknstring]

I read where guys who hunt for a living that "smoke" their clothes before hunting. They gather a bunch of white oak leaves and light them in a Weber grill and plume the smoke out into their garments. Deer are used to smoke and these guys claim it really works. It'll mask your scent long enough or confuse them for a few split seconds so you can get a shot.

We have campfires at the cabin and the south winds will blow the smoke deep into the woods. When sitting in the stand, I can smell the smoke and still manage to see deer, so in hindsight, it may actually not be a bad idea. I wouldn't worry about it - you may have accidentally stumbled onto something!

[iland99]

I've got a wood stove in one of my stands and have shot numerous deer downwind of the stand. In my opinion smoke is a scent that deer are used to, and a little bit of smoke scent isn't going to hurt you at all.