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Sovereign Court

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I recently made a Tiefling Barbarian/Ranger for PFS play, and his first rage power is Scent. The Scent ability reads:

"A creature with the scent ability can detect opponents by sense of smell, generally within 30 feet."... "A creature with the Survival skill and the scent ability can follow tracks by smell, making a Survival check to find or follow a track. A creature with the scent ability can attempt to follow tracks using Survival untrained."

So my question is, what benefits am I getting from Scent, assuming that I have a good Survival skill to begin with? How I am interpreting it is that if I wanted to try and see enemies nearby, I could roll a Perception check, and if I failed it, I could also roll a Survival check to see if I could find the enemy by scent. What about Track? Can I roll for a basic survival Track roll, then if it fails, attempt to roll the same check again, but this time using Scent to track rather than my eyes? Or does Scent add something to my Survival (track) roll?