Last night I opened the back door and stepped on my deck. The skunk stink nearly knocked me down. I think it was on the deck and got startled when the door opened. Thankfully he was long gone and didn’t spray me or the dogs.
The smell came in through the open door and stunk up the house. :smack:
Did you know skunk don’t smell good? 
18 hours later, we’re already on our second can of Febreze.
Try tomato juice. 
I just mopped the kitchen with Pine Sol. For right now, its masking Mr. Skunk.
I’m so thankful the dogs didn’t get sprayed. Takes more than one bath to get the stink off. Tomato juice does seem to help.
A skunk sprayed my BF’s house very near an air intake vent, and inside it was so bad it was like swimming underwater. I haven’t been back for 2 weeks and I worry what it’ll be like when I go back on Friday. I can totally empathize!
Please tell me you’re not keeping your recycling on your deck.
If I have to listen to one more person complain about the mild winter temperatures and no break from the skunks, yada, yada, yada. Only to find that they keep their recycling on their porch or deck.
People of the world, that stuff used to be called garbage! If it was in contact with food, it smells like food to animals! Yes, the box from the frozen entree, the cereal box, even the tins you rinsed! It seems to me this should be self evident, but apparently it’s not. Empty beer bottles are like magnets for skunks. And any crap they snag and chew at, gets left in someone else’s garden or yard.
I greatly dislike it when my neighbours do this, it means there are always skunks around. I have to take extra care letting my dog out in the yard or on his rope.
Keep it inside until pickup day, that’s all you have to do. (Thank you very much for letting me get this off my chest!)
1 quart 3 percent hydrogen peroxide
1/4 cup baking soda (sodium bicarbonate)
1 teaspoon liquid soap or dish detergent (Dawn works very well)
Mix these together and bathe (“shampoo” in or rub down) the spray victim thoroughly.
Be sure to use this mixture immediately after it is created, as it is unstable.
Rinse with tap water afterward, and repeat if necessary.
For spray in the eyes, flush with water as soon as possible.
This recipe works much better than febreeze or tomato juice. My dog used to get skunked about once a year, I was so happy when someone told me about this.
Do be warned, this stuff foams and expands so use a big bowl to mix it. Do NOT use my favorite method of mixing powder and liquids. I put everything in a 1 gallon jug, capped it and shook. (The neighbors were highly entertained but the dog ran away and hid under the jeep)
You need to be careful about spraying this on fabric, it can fade them. You can pour it directly on your porch. I learned that concrete is porus and takes several applications to get the smell out.
The house is smelling better tonight. The scent is fading with time. Mostly what we smell now is the Pine Sol from mopping and 409 we cleaned the counter tops with. We knew cleaning supplies like this linger after using them and hoped it would help with Mr Skunk.
Didn’t have any trash or recyclables on the deck. Not sure why the skunk paid us a visit last night.
I sympathise. My dog got skunked a few years ago and I smelled like skunk for days after bathing her. Initially I thought there was some kind of chemical attack going on, the smell was so strong I didn’t even identify it as skunk immediately. Good luck!
When our sewer line backed up, the plumber told El Hubbo that liberal applications of straight bleach to the floors and walls and such can help deodorize the air. El Hubbo splashed bleach around like it was going out of style and it worked pretty well.
Naturally, you’ll have to be careful about the things that don’t tolerate bleach, of course. Worked a treat.
I read about a couple of veterinary students who decided to de-scent a skunk (unsupervised) so it could become a pet. One said, “Even if we get sprayed, how bad could it really be?”
They found out.