Verdict
theperfumeshop.com 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 | The Perfume Shop is a UK-based ecommerce and physical retail chain selling perfumes, fragrances, beauty products, gift sets, and related services. The page includes product listings, promotions, account login, shopping cart functionality, loyalty benefits, delivery information, store locations, company details, and legal policies. |
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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 | 28 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20001974 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1 | 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).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2000.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The Perfume Shop is an established UK ecommerce and physical retail chain selling perfumes, fragrances, beauty products, gift sets, and related services through online shopping and store-based retail.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The site presents a coherent retail identity through product catalogues, store locations, loyalty services, delivery information, account functionality, and legal policies. Its ordinary ecommerce model, clean external reputation, and sustained historical presence support a legitimate business interpretation rather than impersonation or phishing.
- Domain registration: 1998-04-03; age 28.35 years.
- Web archive: 1,974 snapshots spanning 2000–2026, covering 27 years.
- The homepage contains a branded ecommerce storefront with no detected phishing, impersonation, or malicious-content indicators.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The reviewed pages provide company information, customer policies, delivery and collection details, and legal terms appropriate to a consumer retailer. No financial-services licence is claimed, which is consistent with the stated perfume and beauty retail model; licensing is therefore not a basis for adverse classification. Registration is administered through CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.
- Hosted on AS16625, operated by AKAMAI-AS (Akamai Technologies, Inc., US).
- TLS certificate issued by GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1 for AS Watson (Europe) Holdings B.V., with OV validation, valid to 2026-12-30.
- The homepage provides account login, shopping-cart functionality, loyalty benefits, store information, and customer-policy links.
What to Verify Next
Before a purchase, standard commercial checks may include confirming the applicable delivery, returns, payment, and customer-service terms shown on the site and matching any store or company details against independent business records.
- The homepage identifies United Kingdom and Ireland shopping and delivery options.
- The homepage exposes store-finder and collection-location functions.
- The account area supports order tracking and loyalty-point access.
Summary Verdict
The website presents a legitimate, established, and trustworthy retail posture. The available evidence supports normal interaction, including account login and standard ecommerce use.
Infrastructure Integrity
Akamai CDN/WAF protection provides a meaningful mitigating control for edge exposure and web delivery. Observed traffic resolved to CDN edge infrastructure, with no origin candidate identified in the analysis.
- Akamai edge IP observed: 72.246.28.31.
- CDN edge count: 1; likely origin IP count: 0.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing, account use, and standard transactions are appropriate within the site’s stated retail services.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 theperfumeshop.com.
- The request stayed on theperfumeshop.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by akam.net, across 6 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-04-02. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2000-03-04. Clear
- It is hosted on AKAMAI-AS, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AKAMAI-AS - Akamai Technologies, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 72.246.28.31 |
| Name servers | A1-124.AKAM.NET, A12-67.AKAM.NET, A13-67.AKAM.NET, A2-65.AKAM.NET, A20-64.AKAM.NET, A5-67.AKAM.NET |
| SSL issuer | GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-30 |
| Domain age | 28.4 years |
| Domain expiry | 2027-04-02 |
| Archive first seen | 2000-03-04 |
| Archive snapshots | 1974 |
| 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 theperfumeshop.com 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.