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One spring evening just before dark, I decided to go out and close the chicken house door so no coyote or skunk would get at our laying hens.
Unfortunately, the skunk beat me there and when it was as surprised as I was, it sprayed me full in the face (but luckily not in my eyes!)
In panic, I remembered what one of our older neighbors had told me about how she got rid of the smell after a skunk had sprayed her. I decided to try her remedy. I gathered a few small pieces of wood and some wood chips. I put down the wood chips first, then the firewood, and risked a quick trip into my kitchen to get matches and a cup of cornmeal.
I lighted the fire, and when it was blazing a little, I sprinkled half of the cornmeal over the flames, causing a heavy swirl of smoke. I stepped to one side of the fire so that the slight breeze blew the smoke onto my body.
I twisted and turned, bent down low, and encouraged the smoke to engulf my body. I continued turning and contorting myself to get the greatest possible exposure to the smoke. I blew on the fire to make it blaze again,then added the rest of the cornmeal. Bending low, I carefully lowered my head to get the smoke into my hair, turning around and around.
I felt the smell was gone, but was afraid I was no longer a good judge of that! So I put out the fire, went in and washed up, and then decided to say nothing when my husband and daughter came home. After they told me of the evening’s events, I couldn’t stand it any longer. “Do you smell anything?” I asked innocently.
“No, nothing. Should we?”
Then I told them my adventure!
They came closer to me and sniffed. My daughter even smelled my hair. No odor!
My husband thought I was fooling them, so I told him to go out and check the chicken house. He didn’t have to go that far, for when he got near the hen house, the smell reached him and he firmly believed me.

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Don’t know if that sounds like something helpful - but it might be an alternative to a bath.

Also, there’s a few tips in here as to warding off skunks. They apparently don’t like smelly things. Mothballs as well as insecticide are recommended.

Ok. Back to lurking. :]

Good luck!

The thing that worked was a concoction with hydrogen peroxide i found while desperatly surfing http://lavplourde.tripod.com/skunk/ . I called a dog groomer the day after to see if i could bring him there to get them to get the smell out, and they pretty much said use that formula. So it’s what i’d recommend.