Didn’t want to jack the other smelly thread but I’ve noticed a sweet smell when hunting in MO the last several fall hunts. I can’t figure what it is it’s not a candy or spice smell it’s tough to explain but it’s very noticeable at least to me. It was really strong in a hay field that I hunt in with some trees in the fence lines.

Any ideas from the folks that live there is it a plant or tree school me.

Thanks

I have friends in Mo and went there many times when I lived in Ky. That is the sweet smell of FREEDOM.

Were you hunting down wind of the Uranus Fudge Factory by chance ? Lol

Chicken/turkey guts from Tyson in Springdale

Definitely not one of those nanny states that’s for sure!

Meth?

Lots of chicken and turkey barns around but I know that chicken smell and that not it.

Not that I’d know that too. LOL

That's an illusion.

I will not forget when I trapped Indiana years ago. I had some farms I trapped down wind of a Purina processing plant. I could remember that mash type odor to this day. I had never smelled such an odor. Very distinct and pleasant.

Russian autumn olive

Ol dad

I’ll check that out the next time I’m down that way. Thanks

I can't say that I ever smelled it during the fall. It's normally in the spring when it blossoms out. But it does have a very distinct sweet smell to it.

Ol dad

You likely walked thru a patch of Peppermint, smells like a candy cane, gather the seeds and they will grow nicely in partial sun. Mostly a Glade plat, but I have found it in the middle of 2 track roads thru the woods.
I took some home for my Mom and they lived in her gravel driveway for at least 40 yrs. She would make little cachet's to give to the neighbor girls for their dainty's drawer.

… it’s likely ol dads Mitchum brand deodorant

Sassafras leaves and some others smell good when you walk through them or even when they are just dropping. Sycamore leaves can have a sweetish , overpowering smell.

Keith

… reminds me of when grandma would dry them and crush them up as an air freshener in her house

… to this day the smell brings back memories of getting beaten with a steel antanea off a 72 Chevy longbed pick up truck

And you expected a straight answer here?

It’s clover. Probably red ear. Got 20 acres and smells great up until heavy frost

Somewhere between the pig castration tool and the other same old same old I might get a winner. I should have just guessed then the prove me wrong group would take over. Getting some ideas