This stuff WORKS!! Used it for years!!

Works wonders at keeping deer away from perennial plants! It smells horrible and the smell lingers so be careful where you store it. Highly recommend not bringing it in your house. But it works so the stench is worth it!

This product does what it says.It does not wash off and it works.

This is the only product that deters the herd of deer in my yard in northern Wis

Works well for us keeping those deer from feasting on our evergreens. Be sure to wear gloves, as the smell will linger on your hands should it get on them. Reapply as necessary.

I put this stuff on in the beginning of the summer and waited the entire summer to do my review. Here's how it went. I sprayed this on my hostas, which last year the deer made their personal salad bar. Okay I got to be up front here and tell you this stuff stinks to high heaven. It smells like some sort of urine. Really strong. I told my husband to be careful not to get it on his clothes because he kept walking past the hostas and I said if you get this on your clothes, I'm throwing them away. They will not be brought into the house. But I had high hopes. Day two I go out to check the hostas and there are so many flies there I can't believe it. Everywhere. But only on the leaves where I sprayed - they didn't bother me at all. I thought uh-oh. This might not be what I want. Day three still flies. Maybe a little bit less. Day four flies but less. Day five until the end of the summer, no smell and my hostas made it all the way through the season unscathed . I never had to spray them again and all the leaves are still there! I didn't believe that I wouldn't have to spray them again after rain, but you don't! And we got a lot of rain in Michigan this year. So I would say five stars and I would definitely purchase this again. Thank you for saving my hostas. Next year. I'm putting it on more of my plants because obviously the deer moved on to the other plants in my yard.

This stuff has a very unpleasant odor. Almost makes catfish bait smell nice by comparison. But.... that's likely a good thing. The main ingredient is "putrescent" (rotten) egg whites, along with clove and garlic oil.It's only moderately smelly as you apply it, but avoid getting too much on you and do not get your nose close to the plant for a day or so afterwards as it really gives it a rotten egg scent. You'll also be washing your hands particularly hard after use. ha. May want to use gloves.I was gone an hour around dusk and returned to see the entire top portion of a major tomato branch eaten off after it had been on the plant 3 days. I later found a hornworm on this section of the plant, and that may have been the culprit, but I still believe it was a deer for two reasons. One, it was quite high on the plant, nearly 5 ft off the ground, and secondly, because so much had been eaten. I don't think a single hornworm could eat the growing end of a branch in only an hour. It was a lot of leaves and stems and blossoms.So it might not keep deer away completely. And it recommends only applying every week or two.This stuff has a very unpleasant odor. It eliminates that tomato plant smell and replaces it with a nasty sulfur/rotten egg scent which you'll smell if you get near the plant to inspect for insects, suckers, hornworms, etc. I'm not positive if it repels deer, but it sure repels me.Since the alternative is either hard to manage netting or an 8ft tall fence, it's this stuff or nothing. I think it's definitely better than nothing.

We just moved to a very high-deer population area so I'm in the process of figuring out what I can and cannot plant to survive the never ending parade of deer coming through the yard. I bought one bush to plant this fall after a lot of research, as everyone claimed it was deer-resistant, would do well in this area, and it was also labeled as such. And as an extra precaution I bought this spray to use as well. So right when I planted it I used a hand pump sprayer to get all the leaves (tops and bottoms) drenched in the solution. I've attached the photo of what the plant looked like when planted and sprayed, and then 2 days later. The deer clearly still find the plant at least somewhat tasty, as they probably ate about 1/4 of the bush. There was no rain during this period to wash it off (though it does say 24 hours after spraying it won't be washed off by the rain anyways).I sprayed it again on the 3rd day, in case my initial soaking of the plant wasn't enough (though the label says frequent sprayings should only be needed when the plant is putting out new growth, and it is currently fall and the plant has not put out new growth that needed to be sprayed in the last 3 days), and then about 30 or 40 minutes later I was out on the deck with a view of the bush and I watched a family of 3 deer come and hang out by the bush and nibble on it. They spent a long time there, with their noses right in the bush, so the smell clearly doesn't bother them much. I've attached another photo of the deer with her nose right in it right when the smell is most potent (sorry it's not great quality, I was pretty far out on the deck and only had my cell phone to snap it). It's very hard to describe the smell. It's not horrible but it's not pleasant either. Rotting mouthwash would be the best way I could think to describe it. I can't smell it a couple hours after spraying unless I put my face really close to the plant though.So as of right now, I'm giving this 3 stars because for all I know, the shrub might have been eaten completely to the ground already if I had not sprayed it with this, I really don't know. I think it's possible that they take a couple bites each and then decide it's not that great and move on, but as I've only used it on one plant and it's only been a week I cannot say for certain if the spray is helping or if this plant itself just doesn't taste that great to them. I plan on doing more experiments with more plants in the future (ie. getting 2 plants of 1 type and spraying one but not the other) and I will update my review when I can reach more of a true conclusion as to whether or not it makes a difference. For now, all I know for certain is that deer will still come through your yard (which I consider a good thing as we enjoy seeing all the wildlife), it does not actually repel deer at all from the plant/area and they will still eat it at least to some extent.