Malicious Advice Mallard

Cedar oil or thick smoke (incense or woodfire) or even, i've heard, lemon juice, work if you want to cut the chemicals.

I haven't heard that. Could be a number of things, but CO2 is definitely one of them.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-mosquitoes-detect-people

oh, neat, i thought you were sh*tting us.

Naw, man. You can't build one of these memes on total BS. There has to be a grain of truth to it.

Never seen one before...