Verdict
dubaiperfumecafe.co.za 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 | Dubai Perfume Café is a South African online perfume retailer offering Arabic, niche, oil, and incense fragrances, with product listings, discounts, nationwide delivery, secure payment messaging, installment options, returns, and customer-support links. |
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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 | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 4.8 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 202231 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | 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).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2022.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Dubai Perfume Café is a South African online retailer presenting Arabic, niche, oil, and incense fragrances through a consumer ecommerce storefront, with product listings, discounts, nationwide delivery, secure-payment messaging, installment options, returns, and customer-support links.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent physical-goods retail model, and the available technical and reputation checks show no malicious, phishing, impersonation, or blacklist indicators. Normal account login and standard purchasing activity are appropriate.
- The homepage identifies a perfume and incense catalog with product prices, promotions, delivery information, and checkout functionality.
- External reputation checks recorded zero malicious or suspicious detections, no blacklist result, and no abuse reports.
- Historical coverage shows consistent domain presence without suspicious repurposing or semantic drift.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site provides commercial, delivery, payment, returns, contact, and legal-policy information appropriate to an online retailer. No financial-service or regulated-investment claims are evident. A minor transparency point remains that the available material does not establish a specific regulatory registration, which is a verification matter rather than evidence of deception. No relevant third-party broker match was identified.
- The homepage links to customer support, returns, payment information, and terms and conditions.
- The domain was registered through HOSTAFRICA in 2021 and is approximately 4.82 years old.
- The site has 31 archive snapshots spanning 2022–2025, covering 4 tracked years.
- The site’s hosting infrastructure is served from AS13335 (Cloudflare); its TLS certificate is issued by WE1 at DV validation level and is valid to 2026-10-05.
What to Verify Next
For higher-value commercial activity, confirm the seller’s current business and consumer-protection details through the applicable South African registry or an independently sourced contact channel, and retain order, payment, and returns documentation.
- The homepage states that delivery is available nationwide in South Africa.
- The storefront describes secure checkout, installment-payment options, shipping thresholds, and returns.
- The site exposes sign-in, registration, order-tracking, and customer-support functions.
Summary Verdict
The website presents as a legitimate, established, and trustworthy ecommerce business with a coherent retail purpose and no observed contradiction or abuse signal. Its overall posture supports normal interaction, including account access and standard transactions.
Infrastructure Integrity
Cloudflare CDN/WAF protection and Cloudflare-managed edge infrastructure provide a meaningful mitigating control by reducing direct origin exposure, although protective hosting alone is not proof of legitimacy.
- Observed edge addresses are associated with AS13335 and Cloudflare, Inc., United States.
- Four observed IP addresses were identified as CDN edge addresses, with no origin candidate observed.
- TLS is active with WE1 as issuer and DV validation.
Closing Assessment
Prospective customers may proceed with ordinary browsing, account use, and purchases while applying standard ecommerce payment and record-keeping practices.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-02 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 dubaiperfumecafe.co.za.
- The request stayed on dubaiperfumecafe.co.za. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under HOSTAFRICA. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-10-08. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2022-05-16. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | HOSTAFRICA |
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| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:3036::ac43:beb8 |
| Name servers | erin.ns.cloudflare.com, nikon.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-05 |
| Domain age | 4.8 years |
| Domain expiry | 2026-10-08 |
| Archive first seen | 2022-05-16 |
| Archive snapshots | 31 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about dubaiperfumecafe.co.za 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.