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Vanilla Candle

Fail

Demand is soft, at -50.0% this quarter, so Vanilla Candle is a Fail.

Flapen Score
47
47 / 100
Ranks 1,080 of 2,035 Health & Personal Care niches · −1 vs the category median of 48
Market size
£209K/yr370K searches / yr
90-day growth
-50.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
41%top-5 click share · 16 brands · 73 sellers

Flapen Score

Vanilla Candle against its category

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

47Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Vanilla Candle market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Vanilla Candle 370K times last year and spent an estimated £209K. The top 5 brands take 84% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Jul–Aug–Dec. Flapen scores it 47 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 5.1% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 370K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 5.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -50.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £209K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
370K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-50.0%
Conversion, latest week
5.1%
Market size, estimated
£209Ka year
Peak month
August5.4× the quietest month
Top search term
vanilla candle132K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £10.93.

Listings sell for £10.93 on average, from £2.15 to £20.36. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At £10.93 that is £3K to £5K a year per listing.

Average price
£10.93under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.15–£20.36
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
15K–20K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
£3K–£5K
Returns
0.3%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

72% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 4.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #130 within Alternative Medicine. It carries 1,131 reviews at 4.47 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
72%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
4.0%
Average rank
#130in Alternative Medicine
Average rating
4.47 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,131per listing
Listings tracked
36

04 · Newcomers

5 of last year's 10 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

10 products launched here in the last 12 months. 5 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 37 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
10
Successful launches
5Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
37 months

Products

Top Vanilla Candle 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 41% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£6K£13K£19K£25K1101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

16 flat

Sellers

73

Est. top-5 brand share

84%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

41%

Top 20: 84%

Open market

14%

  • glade56%
  • Yankee Candle17%
  • Woodwick5%
  • NORVENCE4%
  • mepure3%
  • Wax Lyrical2%
  • Open — no brand owns it (10 brands, 14%)

Demand

Vanilla Candle search demand

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

30K20KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Jul, Aug, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 5.4×

Search terms

Top Vanilla Candle search terms shoppers use

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

  • vanilla candle132K/yr
  • glade candles68K/yr
  • glade candle22K/yr
  • vanilla scented candles13K/yr
  • vanilla candles22K/yr
  • candle vanilla16K/yr
  • yankee candle vanilla20K/yr
  • vanilla candles scented10K/yr
  • glade candles scented pack of 68K/yr
  • candles vanilla9K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Vanilla Candle

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

65%of positive reviews mention “Smell”
53%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.3%of orders come back
“No scent at all”
A buyer, on “Smell”53% 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 Vanilla Candle 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