Is scentedsample.com safe?
http://scentedsample.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 93 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Scented Sample is a real-looking Shopify fragrance decant shop, but its operator identity is unverifiable and one saved antivirus result is adverse.
Scented Sample sells decanted fragrance samples and full-size bottles through a Shopify storefront, with a cart and 'Shop Now' buttons and a '5 For £10.00' sample offer. It openly states it is an independent retailer not affiliated with any brand owner, which is a normal disclosure for a decant business. The concerns are narrower: the only business contact is a free Gmail address, no phone number or postal address appears on the captured page, and one saved antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. The domain is about 700 days old, Safe Browsing shows no warning, and the connection is encrypted. On balance this is a moderate-risk shop rather than a confirmed scam: the commercial model is plausible, but accountability if an order goes wrong is weak.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 62/100
Moderate Risk covers scores 45–69. 4 findings pulled the score down; 4 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateThe store's contact address is a free-mail inbox (gmail.com) rather than a mailbox on its own domain.
- Moderate1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
- MinorThe captured page shows no phone number and no operator postal address.
- MinorThe only business contact captured is a Gmail address, and no contact email uses the site's own domain.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe site clearly states it is an independent retailer not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with any brand owner, and that brand names are used for identification only.
- SupportsThe registrable domain is about 700 days old, which is past the brand-new-domain stage.
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the URL.
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor). Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
Scented Sample sells decanted fragrance samples and full-size bottles through a Shopify storefront, with a cart and 'Shop Now' buttons and a '5 For £10.00' sample offer. It openly states it is an independent retailer not affiliated with any brand owner, which is a normal disclosure for a decant business. The concerns are narrower: the only business contact is a free Gmail address, no phone number or postal address appears on the captured page, and one saved antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. The domain is about 700 days old, Safe Browsing shows no warning, and the connection is encrypted. On balance this is a moderate-risk shop rather than a confirmed scam: the commercial model is plausible, but accountability if an order goes wrong is weak.
A Shopify decant shop with a clear independent-retailer disclosure
The storefront runs on Shopify and presents itself as a fragrance decant retailer: the captured page shows a Cart, a 'Shop Now' button, and a '5 For £10.00' sample offer. It also links out to a TikTok profile and an independent review platform's page, which are the kind of social and review touchpoints a small independent shop would normally have.
The site states plainly that it is an independent retailer and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with any brand owner, and that brand names are used for identification only. That is a standard and honest disclosure for a decant business, and it is the main reason this does not read as a brand-impersonation operation.
Weak operator identity: free-mail contact and no phone or postal address
The only business contact captured is a Gmail address rather than a mailbox on the store's own domain, and no contact email uses the site's own domain. The captured page also shows no phone number and no operator postal address. None of these facts proves fraud, but together they mean a buyer has no verifiable business identity to fall back on if an order is late, wrong, or disputed.
The domain itself is about 700 days old, which is long enough to be past the brand-new-domain stage and is a mildly reassuring signal, but it does not substitute for a disclosed operator. The saved antivirus observation is adverse: one engine marked the URL as suspicious, and that result is stale, so it should be treated as a flag to verify rather than a current clean bill of health.
Clean connection and no Safe Browsing warning, but the antivirus flag stands
Technically the site is not showing the usual red flags: the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning. That means there is no evidence of a phishing page, a malicious download, or an active browser-level threat on the captured page.
The one adverse technical item is the saved antivirus result: a single engine marked the URL as suspicious. Because that observation is stale and comes from a saved scan rather than a fresh submission, it is a reason for caution rather than proof of malware. The bigger practical risk here is operator-side: an unverifiable seller with only a free-mail contact is hard to hold accountable if a purchase goes wrong.
Why the score is 62
The store's contact address is a free-mail inbox (gmail.com) rather than a mailbox on its own domain. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
1/ 93
detectionsSaved analysis from October 2, 2026 - stale
1 engine flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 1
- Total
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Clean
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Unrated
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- Googleshopping
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
Choose 1ML fragrances 5 For £10.00
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Choose 1ML fragrances 5 For £10.00
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
Middle Eastern Fragrance Samples From Viral And Popular Brands – Scented Sample
- Meta description
Middle Eastern fragrance samples at. Explore luxury oud, musk, and attar oils in travel-size vials. Try before you buy and Find your signature scent today. Free Shipping Over £20
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/pages/about-usRead
- Terms/policies/terms-of-serviceRead
- Refund / returns policy/policies/refund-policyRead
- Shipping policy/policies/shipping-policyRead
- Contact page/pages/contactRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Middle Eastern Fragrance Samples From Viral And Popular Brands – Scented Sample
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
What remains unverified
1 of the 6 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The store's contact address is a free-mail inbox (gmail.com) rather than a mailbox on its own domain.
- 02The only business contact captured is a Gmail address, and no contact email uses the site's own domain.
- 03The captured page shows no phone number and no operator postal address.
Web research findings
Independent findings for scentedsample.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for scentedsample.com. That is common for new or low-traffic sites and does not clear the site.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainscentedsample.com
- Redirects toscentedsample.com
- Hosted byShopify, Inc.
- Referencesfonts.shopifycdn.com · shop.app
Domain Timeline
- Nov 27, 2024Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 1.9 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 28, 2026Saved security review — Rated Moderate Risk
The evidence in this saved scan is mixed or incomplete; the completed checks are detailed above.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No contact email uses the site's own domain.
- Business contact uses a free-mail provider (gmail.com).
- No phone number listed on the captured page.
- No operator postal address visible on the captured page.
- Links to 6 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for scentedsample.com.
A shared content-delivery network address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Chat, reviews and email
- Judge.me reviews
- Trustpilot widget
Payment providers the page loads
- Shop Pay
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://scentedsample.com/
- 2200https://scentedsample.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruspartial
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
The store's contact address is a free-mail inbox (gmail.com) rather than a mailbox on its own domain. · The captured page shows no phone number and no operator postal address.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 1 of 93 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Oct 2, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 28, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 28, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 28, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 28, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result1 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 2, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 28, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 28, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 28, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 28, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is scentedsample.com a scam or is it safe?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Scented Sample is a real-looking Shopify fragrance decant shop, but its operator identity is unverifiable and one saved antivirus result is adverse.
Scented Sample sells decanted fragrance samples and full-size bottles through a Shopify storefront, with a cart and 'Shop Now' buttons and a '5 For £10.00' sample offer. It openly states it is an independent retailer not affiliated with any brand owner, which is a normal disclosure for a decant business. The concerns are narrower: the only business contact is a free Gmail address, no phone number or postal address appears on the captured page, and one saved antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. The domain is about 700 days old, Safe Browsing shows no warning, and the connection is encrypted. On balance this is a moderate-risk shop rather than a confirmed scam: the commercial model is plausible, but accountability if an order goes wrong is weak.
09 · Community
Community
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