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Incense Sticks

Fail

Prices span $3.38–$8.69, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Incense Sticks is a Fail.

Flapen Score
41
41 / 100
Ranks 4,712 of 5,777 Home & Garden niches · −10 vs the category median of 51
Market size
£743K/yr1.2M searches / yr
90-day growth
-11.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
81%top-5 click share · 6 brands · 71 sellers

Flapen Score

Incense Sticks against its category

The dotted line is the Home & Garden average. Past it, Incense Sticks is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

41Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Incense Sticks market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Incense Sticks 1.2M times last year and spent an estimated £743K. The top 5 brands take 97% of clicks. Demand peaks in Dec. Flapen scores it 41 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 10.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 1.2M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 10.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -11.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £743K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
1.2M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-11.0%
Conversion, latest week
10.4%
Market size, estimated
£743Ka year
Peak month
December1.7× the quietest month
Top search term
incense sticks772K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £6.04.

Listings sell for £6.04 on average, from £3.38 to £8.69. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 100K to 125K a year. The average listing sells 8,000 to 10,000 of them. At £6.04 that is £48K to £60K a year per listing.

Average price
£6.04under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£3.38–£8.69
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
100K–125K
Units per listing a year
8,000–10,000
Revenue per listing a year
£48K–£60K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

55% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #25 within Home Fragrance. It carries 8,633 reviews at 4.55 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
55%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#25in Home Fragrance
Average rating
4.55 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
8,633per listing
Listings tracked
11

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are settling in.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 49 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
0
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
49 months

Products

Top Incense Sticks 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 28, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 81% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£74K£149K£223K£297K1K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

6 falling

Sellers

71

Est. top-5 brand share

97%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

81%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Satya66%
  • Fumino11%
  • STAMFORD INC.8%
  • HEM8%
  • Dr.JIEER4%
  • Nag Champa3%
  • Open — no brand owns it (0%)

Demand

Incense Sticks search demand

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

35K25KHoliday '24Spike '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.7×

Search terms

Top Incense Sticks search terms shoppers use

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

  • incense sticks772K/yr
  • incense157K/yr
  • satya incense sticks38K/yr
  • joss sticks32K/yr
  • incense sticks multipack20K/yr
  • agarbatti15K/yr
  • intense sticks7K/yr
  • insense17K/yr
  • incense stick18K/yr
  • scented sticks16K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Incense Sticks

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

52%of positive reviews mention “Smell”
58%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.1%of orders come back
“Smells like smoke”
A buyer, on “Smell”58% 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.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Incense Sticks 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