Verdict
thefragranceshop.co.uk 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 | A UK fragrance retailer storefront featuring branded perfumes and aftershaves, product prices and reviews, promotional discounts, customer-service resources, social links, and a paid annual membership program. No clear phishing, impersonation, malware, credential-harvesting, or structurally risky financial activity is evident in the supplied content. |
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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 | 22 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| 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: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is an established UK ecommerce storefront selling branded fragrances and beauty products, supported by product pricing, customer reviews, delivery and returns resources, store-finding services, and a £15 annual MyTFS membership offering discounts, express delivery, samples, and subscription savings.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No identity contradictions, phishing indicators, brand impersonation, malicious behavior, or other scam signals were observed. The storefront’s commercial content is coherent with its stated retail purpose, while tested forms and network interactions showed no credential-harvesting or untrusted submission behavior.
- The homepage presented consistent retail inventory from named fragrance brands, with member and non-member prices and extensive product-review counts.
- The homepage contained one newsletter-subscription form; it was not sensitive and had no untrusted destination.
- Interactive testing found no hidden forms, external password submissions, cloaking, suspicious inline scripts, clipboard hijacking, or wallet-related behavior.
- The domain was registered in 2004 and is approximately 22.44 years old; its registration currently extends to 2032 through Fasthosts Internet Ltd [Tag = LIVEDOMAINS].
Regulatory Verification Notes
The website operates as a conventional retailer rather than a regulated financial or investment service, so no financial-services authorization would ordinarily be expected for the described business model. The supplied homepage links to Terms & Conditions, Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, delivery, returns, FAQs, and contact resources, although the contents of the legal pages do not provide enough evidence here to independently characterize the operating legal entity. This is a limited disclosure-review point, not evidence of illegitimacy or a conflicting identity.
- The homepage’s customer-service navigation includes Contact Us, Terms & Conditions, Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Delivery, FAQs, and Returns.
- The homepage offers account, order-tracking, store-finder, favorites, and shopping-bag functions consistent with a developed retail operation.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a WE1-issued domain-validated TLS certificate, valid to 2026-09-20.
- No matching broker profile or financial-regulatory claim was identified in the supplied evidence, consistent with the site’s non-financial retail activity.
What to Verify Next
For enhanced procurement, payment-provider, or vendor-onboarding assurance, the operating company name and registered particulars should be confirmed from the linked legal terms and matched against the merchant identity presented during payment. Returns, renewal, cancellation, and member-benefit conditions should also be reviewed before purchasing the annual membership, and official contact channels may be confirmed through an independent corporate source where institutional reliance is required.
- The homepage advertises recurring membership benefits, making the associated renewal and cancellation terms relevant to informed enrollment.
- Separate member and non-member prices are displayed on product listings, providing a basis for confirming how discounts are calculated at checkout.
- Delivery, returns, order tracking, and contact resources are visibly provided on the homepage for pre-purchase review.
Summary Verdict
The website presents as a legitimate, established, and trustworthy retail operation. Its longstanding presence, coherent commercial identity, clean external reputation, stable behavior, and mature customer-service footprint converge strongly in support of normal use, including account login and standard transactions.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is served through Cloudflare’s mainstream CDN/WAF infrastructure, which reduces direct origin exposure and provides conventional edge-layer protection; this is a mitigating security control rather than independent proof of business legitimacy.
- The hosting infrastructure is served from AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc., US).
- All four observed addresses were Cloudflare edge endpoints, with no origin-server candidate exposed during the assessment.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing, account use, membership enrollment, and ordinary purchases are appropriate, subject to standard consumer review of transaction and subscription terms.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-03 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 | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 76/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 76% |
- Trusted social count=2
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 thefragranceshop.co.uk.
- The request stayed on thefragranceshop.co.uk. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Fasthosts Internet Ltd [Tag = LIVEDOMAINS]. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2032-03-01. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Fasthosts Internet Ltd [Tag = LIVEDOMAINS] |
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| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700::6812:1d1b |
| Name servers | celeste.ns.cloudflare.com, memphis.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-20 |
| Domain age | 22.4 years |
| Domain expiry | 2032-03-01 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| 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 thefragranceshop.co.uk 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.