# ScentPulse Blind-Buy Risk Score

> ScentPulse Blind-Buy Risk Score is a paid API for AI agents from scentpulse-xi.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.12/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns a composite blind-buy risk score for a fragrance, synthesizing polarizing-note flags, review-sentiment spread, batch variation, reformulation history, discontinuation risk, counterfeit prevalence, and price exposure context.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://scentpulse-xi.vercel.app/api/scent/blind-buy-risk
- Price: $0.12/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/scentpulse-blind-buy-risk-score-0bd3b8df
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_6yZuTPmSf87VQWD2a6DNj

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability scentpulse-blind-buy-risk-score-0bd3b8df
```

Example prompt: What's the blind-buy risk score for Creed Aventus Eau de Parfum? I'm thinking of spending $400 on a full bottle without sampling it — give me the full breakdown including any reformulation issues, counterfeit risk, and polarizing notes.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when a user is considering purchasing a fragrance they have never smelled and wants an objective, multi-factor risk assessment before committing money. It is ideal when the user mentions blind buying, no access to testers, online-only purchase, or concern about reformulation, counterfeits, or polarizing notes. Prefer this over general fragrance lookups (note-profile, dupe-finder) when the primary concern is purchase risk rather than fragrance discovery or finding alternatives.

## Known failure modes

- Unknown or obscure fragrance not in the database — may return no results or low-confidence score
- Ambiguous fragrance name (e.g. house name only, no specific scent) — may require more specific input
- Fragrance too new to have sufficient review or reformulation data — score may be low-confidence
- Payment failure via x402 protocol — request not processed
- Rate limiting or server error from Vercel-hosted endpoint

## How this service works

Blind-buy risk score for a fragrance you have not sniffed — composite score from polarizing-note flags, review-sentiment spread, batch-variation and reformulation history, discontinuation risk, and counterfeit prevalence, with price exposure context.

## Output

A composite blind-buy risk score (likely numeric or tiered) for the requested fragrance, accompanied by a breakdown of contributing factors: polarizing-note flags indicating potentially divisive ingredients, review-sentiment spread showing how polarized community opinion is, batch-variation and reformulation history alerts, discontinuation risk signal, counterfeit prevalence rating, and price exposure context helping the buyer weigh financial risk against the score.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "lang": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "en | de | fr | es | ar | ja | ko | zh | pt"
      },
      "brand": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Dior | YSL | Creed (optional)"
      },
      "fragrance": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Fahrenheit | Kouros | Original Santal (required — fragrance to assess)"
      },
      "price_paid_usd": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "optional — how much you paid, to frame price exposure"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "errors": {
     "type": "object",
     "description": "Documented error responses, keyed by HTTP status code",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
       "description"
      ],
      "properties": {
       "example": {
        "type": "object"
       },
       "description": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      }
     }
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "fragrance": "Fahrenheit",
  "risk_band": "moderate",
  "risk_score": 55
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/scentpulse-blind-buy-risk-score-0bd3b8df/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from scentpulse-xi.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/scentpulse-xi.vercel.app/llms.txt)