The Armchair Outfitter

This is going to be a short review because it’s negative and there’s not much to say. I picked up these solid scent “leaves” for use on a recent deer hunting trip because the scent wafers I had been using for several seasons had finally lost their scent. It’s not that these don’t smell like dirt, they do, just not very much. There are four leaves in the package compared to three scent wafers in the product I normally use, but the scent of the other product is much stronger.

I drop the wafers into a plastic trash bag with my clothes after washing my duds in scent free laundry detergent and drying them with masking scent dryer sheets. I’ll provide more information about the detergent and dryer sheets I like in future reviews, but for the time being let me say that Fresh Earth cover scent wafers from Hunter’s Specialties are similarly priced and the scent is much stronger. When you open the container on the H.S. product, the smell is almost enough to knock you down. The degree of accuracy in reproducing the scent is also phenomenal. You’ve smelled this scent before if you’ve ever opened a container of nightcrawlers or kicked all the rotting leaves out of a spot to sit down when hunting from the ground. Yup, the H.S. wafers smell like straight-up dirt, and that’s a good thing. The Trophy Leaf has a similar smell, but it’s just not enough to scent my whole bag of clothes the way the other product does. The Trophy Leaf is not a bad product, but there are others that are better. You heard it here.