No, he sees me in a towel regularly.  Also, he was clearly looking at
the top of my head.

I don't think it was the smell because he was in the bathroom with me
while I was putting it on and also when he began scrutinizing my head,
he wasn't sniffing.  But yes, the hair was piled on my head and stuck
to my scalp and the goop was brightly coloured and shiny.  I think it
threw him for a loop!

Vino is afraid when I come in wearing shoes.  Since living in
Thailand, we've gotten into the Thai habit of taking the shoes off
outside before entering the house.  So he's not used to shoes anymore
and now they kind of scare him.
Unfortunately, there's a dog in the neighbourhood which has been
stealing my shoes.  It's only started very recently.  One morning I
went out and one of my brand new leather sandals was gone.  I looked
around the yard but didn't see anything.  When the maid came, she
noticed my shoe was gone too so I indicated that it had disappeared
overnight.  Later on, she brought me my shoe back and barked so I
figured she was trying to tell me that a dog had it.  A few days
later, another shoe went missing.  The maid wasn't there so I walked
around the neighbourhood looking for it.  My next door neighbour saw
me and asked what I was looking for.  I told her the story and she
said that it was the dog from the orange house down the street.  So I
went over there and my shoe was sitting on top of their mailbox.  I
grabbed my shoe back and bought a cabinet with doors to keep the shoes
in!

Possibly, if it had been used on black hair, the results would have
been orange or red highlights, rather than all of the hair turning
bright orange.  I had a Iranian friend when I was in college whose
hair was black, with reddish highlights.  I don't know if her hair
naturally had the red pigments in addition to melanin (as is true
with people of sub-Saharan African origin), or if the reddish
highlights came from dye.