I agree...
I've noticed that deer know what is in the area, since they are there all the time. So if you suddenly deploy apple lure or corn lure and there is nor corn nor apples around..., I think that bothers them rather than helping you.
Some folks think scent is everything, or the second most important thing. They tell you to wear some charcoal impregnated, loam external scented coverall, and to chew pine fresh gum...no farting nor belching. In fact what would really be ideal would be a suit that was orange for hunting but contained you 100%. Of course a lot of the folks pushing the scent idea are the folks that sell scents, so......
I wash me and my clothes in plain lye soap.
I take 3/4 of the bar of lye soap and grate it with a cheese grater into the washer which is set on "small load" and hot water. It dissolves the lye soap. No scent; no color brighteners. I let this cool. Then I put the hunting clothes into this for about a 30 minute soak then let it agitate and drain. To rinse, I reset the washer to "fill" and use hot water again. I wish my washer had a hot/hot setting but it does not. The heat applied to the water in the water heater breaks down the chlorine so a hot wash and hot rinse does not leave chlorine in the clothing (and the clothing doesn't fade like it does in areas where the chlorine is high).
Folks on well water can disregard the idea about hot/hot washing as there is no chlorine. Then I line dry.
The outer layer of clothing that I will wear gets "smoked". I take a small, charcoal brazer (or you could use a habachi or small grill). I use some hardwood charcoal started with newspaper...., not fuel or lighter fluid. Once this is going, I get some green hickory, plus some hickory nuts that I've gathered squirrel hunting, and burning this I hold the clothing in the smoke for a few minutes which will give a nice hickory wood smoke scent.
I hunt from the ground, and I wear historic clothing because I'm half-crazy and use a .54 flintlock. I hunt from the ground and get the deer in if I can, to under 50 yards. Sometimes they are very close, and if my "scent" after what I do was a problem, I'd think they'd show me. OH, I also scrape a tiny patch of ground under my feet where I'm hiding so I don't crunch and leaves or twigs when I shift feet and on a still day it kicks up some loam scent.
The only "reactions" I've ever had from scent were the time the wool capote that I was wearing had been washed without my knowledge in
Tide detergent
..., but with the hickory smoked clothing, I've had a buck, once, get wind of me hiding in a thicket, and he stomped and challenged what I think he thought was another deer.
Movement and noise and paying attention to the direction the wind is blowing seem to me to be the key....
LD