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Black Honey

brand-locked demand (top 5 brands take 100% of clicks) — Black Honey doesn't clear our bar today.

Flapen Score

39
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Ranks 2,047 of 2,481 Beauty niches · −8 vs the category median of 47

Market size 49Growth 19Conversion 85Competition 4Returns 98Price range 24Avg price 55Brand share 0Review moat 22Quality gap 50
This niche Category average · 2,481 niches

Is Black Honey profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Black Honey is a £268K/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (226K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 100% of demand. Verdict: Skip it — 39/100.

Black Honey: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Not really. Search demand moved -11.6% over the last 90 days and 9.4% of searches end in a purchase.

£268K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr20K
Search volume / yr-11.6%226K
Conversion rate9.4%
Avg price£12.56

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 100% of demand, so 0% of the market is open.

0%

open market share

Brands · sellers3 · 6
Top-5 product click share95%
Open market0%
Avg brand age48 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.5★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 6 products

Sponsored placement100%
New entrants (1y)1· 1 succeeded
Avg rating4.5★
Avg reviews9,244

Top Black Honey products & what they sell for

Every tracked product — its share of the shelf, its review moat, and what it sells for.

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products capture 95% of clicks — a locked-up shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£54K£107K£161K£214K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

3 flat

Sellers

6

Top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

95%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Clinique89%
  • Shengqialun6%
  • KYDA5%

Top Black Honey search terms shoppers use

The exact queries shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth and conversion.

  • clinique black honey61K/yr
  • clinique lipstick35K/yr
  • black honey clinique31K/yr
  • black honey18K/yr
  • clinique black honey lipstick18K/yr
  • clinique lip balm12K/yr
  • black honey lipstick9K/yr
  • clinique lipsticks for women8K/yr
  • clinique almost lipstick7K/yr
  • clinique lip gloss5K/yr

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Black Honey

What buyers mention most, as a share of all reviews.

What buyers love

90% of reviews
Color37%

Lovely colour

Value For Money13%

Excellent value

Quality-Overall11%

High quality and natural looking

Moist/Dry8%

very keeps lips moisturized

Texture/Consistency-Overall6%

A nice smooth texture

What buyers complain about

77% of reviews
Color26%

No colour at all

Value For Money21%

Not worth the price

Durability12%

does not last

Moist/Dry4%

Dried up and disappeared within hours

Natural Resource Wastage4%

Waste of money

Black Honey return rate & reasons

Why buyers send it back, as a share of all return requests.

0.4%

Return rate

61%

Fixable by listing

The "fixable" share counts expectation-mismatch reasons — size, look, advertised-vs-actual — that better copy and images address.

1Color
47%
2Advertised Vs Actual Product
11%
3Functionality-Overall
9%
4Product Condition
6%
5Smell
6%

Common Black Honey questions

The questions sellers ask about this niche, answered from the tracked metrics.

Flapen scores Black Honey 39/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Skip it. The niche generates £268K/yr across 6 tracked products. 1 of 1 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved -11.6% over the last 90 days.
Black Honey buyers on Amazon United Kingdom complain most about Color, Value For Money, Durability, the themes mined from the niche's reviews. Its return rate is 0.4%.