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Candles

Maybe

An estimated 0.4% of orders come back. But demand is soft, at -34.8% this quarter, so Candles is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
61
61 / 100
Top 7% of 2,035 Health & Personal Care niches · +13 vs the category median of 48
Market size
£2.6M/yr7.5M searches / yr
90-day growth
-34.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
37%top-5 click share · 29 brands · 91 sellers

Flapen Score

Candles against its category

The dotted line is the Health & Personal Care average. Past it, Candles is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

61Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Candles market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Candles 7.5M times last year and spent an estimated £2.6M. The top 5 brands take 38% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 61 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 3.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 7.5M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 3.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -34.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £2.6M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
7.5M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-34.8%
Conversion, latest week
3.7%
Market size, estimated
£2.6Ma year
Peak month
December7.2× the quietest month
Top search term
candles2.8M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £9.23.

Listings sell for £9.23 on average, from £2.15 to £16.47. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 300K to 400K a year. The average listing sells 3,000 to 4,000 of them. At £9.23 that is £28K to £37K a year per listing.

Average price
£9.23under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.15–£16.47
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
300K–400K
Units per listing a year
3,000–4,000
Revenue per listing a year
£28K–£37K
Returns
0.4%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

73% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 10.5% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #102 within Alternative Medicine. It carries 1,452 reviews at 4.41 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
73%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
10.5%
Average rank
#102in Alternative Medicine
Average rating
4.41 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,452per listing
Listings tracked
37

04 · Newcomers

6 of last year's 8 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

8 products launched here in the last 12 months. 6 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 40 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
8
Successful launches
6Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
40 months

Products

Top Candles products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 24, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 37% of clicks, no more. An open shelf where new products get seen.

£0£103K£207K£310K£414K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

29 falling

Sellers

91

Est. top-5 brand share

38%

Top 20: 88%

Est. top-5 click share

37%

Top 20: 82%

Open market

57%

  • Yankee Candle14%
  • Woodwick7%
  • TTRWIN6%
  • CHILLFLAME6%
  • EasyBreez5%
  • IDEALHOUSE5%

Demand

Candles search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

600K400KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 7.2×

Search terms

Top Candles search terms shoppers use

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

  • candles2.8M/yr
  • candle1.6M/yr
  • candles gifts for women1.0M/yr
  • scented candles721K/yr
  • scented candle149K/yr
  • candle set171K/yr
  • candle gift set197K/yr
  • large candle119K/yr
  • candle gift78K/yr
  • scented candles gifts for women114K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Candles

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

33%of positive reviews mention “Smell”
34%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.4%of orders come back
“the smell of smoke spread everywhere”
A buyer, on “Smell”34% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Candles questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data