I've used Deep Woods OFF or Cutters in the past. t has amazed me how I hear so many recommend that damn Thermacell down here & I've had it on while at my bench shooting & it had ZERO effect on the clouds of swarming skeeters & when turkey hunting I've set it in the crotch of a tree between me & Anonymous C right at chest level & even had it right behind my head & even with no wind at all, it still did absolutely ZERO to the clouds of blood suckin lil buzzers. A/C brought these neon green 1" stick-on " skeeter repellent dots for us, we could have covered ourselves with them & they did nothing. A lil smear of Vick's on both shoulders, down the arms, a lil dab on each side of the chest..... cleared them skeeters right out. I could still see them flyin around, but not directly on us or in very close proximity to our bodies. It reall worked great.
It chaps my hind parts at how many jars of Vicks of cans of Cutters or OFF I could have bought with what the Thermacell & an extra pk of inserts & batteries cost me.