In regard to bear bait and similar comments:
It's possible that any scent will make an animal curious. However, keep in mind that something which smells like beef to us probably won't smell like beef to other animals. Humans have extremely poor senses of smell, in comparison to most animals we encounter. Our olfactory senses are almost insensate, "blind" or "deaf", or whatever you'd call it, in comparison to the mammals we meet. Bears, for example, have senses of smell that are literally many thousands of times more sensitive than humans' senses of smell. In this way, they live in a completely different world than us, regarding how they experience smells.
Imagine a simple organism with pit eyes/stemma, which can only detect light from dark, but can't resolve images, and can't perceive color or movement. Imagine that animal's visual experience compared to ours.
Our ability to detect and resolve smells, compared to a bear's, or a deer's, or a coyote's, is kind of like that. In regard to smells, we're sort of not experiencing the world in the same way a bear does. So, just because something smells "just like" _____ to us doesn't mean it smells at all like _____ to other animals.