Last fall I used some incense stick type attractant I picked up at Cabella's. I used both a berry scent and an anise scent. The site was baited with meat scraps and berry donut filling. Three days of hunting yielded two bears, five bears and one bear a nice six foot #240 boar, recently retrieved from taxidermist. My partner on this adventure saw one bear in three days, no scent stick. Do I believe it worked, not sure, but I'll be burning them again. Guides opinion... "never know what dat bear want, try Old Spice if you want" that said he has reverential trust in vanilla in a spray bottle. Yes, I used some of that too, a regular smorgasboard out there.