BobbexDeer Repellent Ready-to-Use Deer Deterrent Refill (1 gal.) 66-J2BP-ZJ0U

The spray works as advertised. It has prevented deer from eating the bushes.HOWEVER, the bottle came without any wrapping like it used to. It was just sitting in the amazon box mingling with the other stuff I ordered.Now, if you've ever smelled this stuff you know why it needs to be wrapped up. There was the slightest leak in my bottle and now everything in the box smells like warm death. Life lesson...order smelly animal repellant separately from anything else you don't plan to immediately throw out. Good grief.

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.

I live in Minnesota, in a wooded area with lots of deer. We've had no problem with deer eating our plants (mainly hostas and bleeding heart) since spraying this repellent on the plants. So it works in that sense. But boy does this stuff reek. Smells like someone who didn't drink any liquids but only ate asparagus for 10 days straight took a leak into a bottle, but then sprinkled some mint leaves in it to mask the smell. Terrible smelling as you apply it, but smell soon dissipates and we couldn't smell it at all the next day

This has kept deer from eating my hostas and just generally walking through our flower beds during this past spring and summer. Our small "urban" area of a bigger town has a fair population of extremely domesticated deer who will walk right up to a construction site (with newly born twin fawns) and sniff around flower beds under ladders. They walk across our streets with a regal air and take their sweet time, not caring if there are cars waiting for them. The only time I kept a doe and her twins from munching my neighbor's front door rose bush (prior to Bobbex) was using my water hose to blast the face of the doe, who didn't care for it and left with fawns following. For those reviewers who describe the smell as "death"... I don't get it. How do you describe the smell of death unless you're around decaying bodies of animals or humans? I grew up in a rural area and my grandfather was a cattleman and owned a butcher shop. Trips to the rendering plant were sometimes required where I was left in the truck but the smell is truly unpleasant. I'm careful not to spray Bobbex when the wind is blowing and wear gloves, but other than that, I don't need to wear anything special or live in fear that I'm going to smell like the stuff. I've also lightly sprayed other plants and trees with leaf laden limbs AND the ground so they have absolutely no desire to walk where I don't want them nor find a nice place to plop down and spend the night. It's wonderful and the smell doesn't permeate our yard either.

The local deer were eating my aunts' flower garden - hostas down to nubs, all the daylilies eaten, ground cover flowers gone - you name it, they ate it. Someone recommended this, so I bought some. I didn't know how awful it smelled until I started spraying it around the plants. I quite literally, had to hold my breath while I sprayed, because the smell was so vulgar. But you know what? It worked!! Hostas are growing back, lilies are blooming again ground cover is blossoming. The deer got the hint and haven't been back. I highly recommend. Just put a mask on before you start spraying!! :)

The product is probably fine, it does stink, which is what keeps deer away. However, when it's shipped in the *same box* with other items, and it's not put into a plastic bag to isolate it, it bangs around during shipping and the nozzle leaks a bit of the liquid stink onto other items in the box! What a mess. I should have sent them the whole box and contents back, but instead, I used my time cleaning things off (which still have some stink).

Great products, smells horrible but works great.

The Bobbex liquid itself is an excellent deer repellent. We have lots of deer that walk through our front yard daily, and this stuff really does deter them. It smells awful, but it works.On the other hand, this sprayer is really bad. I only got two sprays from a brand new bottle, and then it just stopped spraying. I tried washing the nozzle with soap and water just in case it somehow got clogged (in two sprays?), but that didn’t help a thing.I’ve contacted the seller to see if I can get a replacement. How sad that such a great product is put in such a crappy sprayer!