Verdict
dscentsation.ng appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | D'Scentsation is a Nigeria-focused online perfume retailer offering designer and niche fragrances, cosmetics, chocolates, gift sets, promotions, and delivery services. The page includes extensive product merchandising, pricing, contact information, a physical Lagos address, newsletter signup, and blog posts. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 8 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 4.5 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- VirusTotal and Google Safe Browsing had no flags for this domain; its hosting IP carries AbuseIPDB reports below the confidence level TrustSniffer treats as a flag.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Overview
D'Scentsation is a Nigeria-focused online perfume retailer presenting designer and niche fragrances, cosmetics, chocolates, gift sets, promotions, delivery services, and newsletter marketing through a Shopify storefront.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The storefront presents a coherent retail business model with product listings, prices, contact information, delivery details, and no indicators of phishing, brand impersonation, credential harvesting, cryptocurrency abuse, or malicious behavior. Independent reputation checks recorded no malicious or suspicious detections, supporting the conclusion that normal interaction is appropriate.
- The homepage presents extensive perfume, cosmetics, gift-set, pricing, and delivery content with no reported fraud indicators.
- Domain registration telemetry records creation on 2022-02-18 and an age of 4.45 years.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, and no blacklist hit.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site operates as a conventional consumer retailer rather than presenting a financial, investment, or other clearly regulated service. No license claim or registration number is identified in the supplied site content; this is a limited disclosure point for business verification, not evidence of deception. The domain uses GO54 Limited, formerly Whogohost Limited, as registrar, and the site has valid mainstream transport encryption.
- The homepage identifies a Nigeria-focused retail operation and provides a physical Lagos address and contact details.
- The domain registrar is GO54 Limited (formerly Whogohost Limited).
- The site is hosted on AS13335 through Cloudflare; its TLS certificate is issued by YE1, uses DV validation, and is valid to 2026-09-06.
What to Verify Next
A prospective customer should confirm the seller’s business identity, delivery and returns terms, and payment-recipient details through the site’s published contact and commerce information before a material purchase. Where required for the transaction, any applicable local retail registration or consumer-protection status should be checked through the relevant Nigerian registry.
- The site provides contact information and a physical Lagos address.
- Shipping and returns information is presented as part of the storefront content.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is that of a legitimate, established, trustworthy online retailer with no observed scam or impersonation indicators. Normal interaction, including account access and standard shopping use, is appropriate.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by Cloudflare CDN/WAF infrastructure, with observed traffic associated with AS13335 and edge address 23.227.38.32; the origin server was not exposed in the analysis. This reduces direct origin exposure but remains a mitigating control rather than proof of legitimacy.
- Cloudflare CDN/WAF protection was detected, with 1 observed edge IP and 0 likely origin candidates.
- The hosting provider is CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US, with registry ARIN and country attribution CA.
Closing Assessment
Prospective customers may proceed with normal shopping and account activity while applying ordinary transaction and payment safeguards.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-01 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
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| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 50% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of dscentsation.ng.
- The request stayed on dscentsation.ng. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GO54 Limited (formerly Whogohost Limited). Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-02-18. Noted
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in CA. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GO54 Limited (formerly Whogohost Limited) |
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| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | CA |
| Server IP | 23.227.38.32 |
| Name servers | gail.ns.cloudflare.com, eoin.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | YE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-06 |
| Domain age | 4.5 years |
| Domain expiry | 2027-02-18 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 8 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about dscentsation.ng at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.