For about the last 6 to 8 years I have been using Picaridin based repellant lotion made by Sawyer. But one day in 2019 in Nova Scotia, the bugs were so thick that I had to dig out a tiny little bottle of 100 percent Deet that I bought decades ago.

I have used the spray on Permethrin on clothing for the last few years, but the bugs since then were not bad enough for me to say if it worked very well or not. I used the Sawyer brand spray on Permethrin.