Skip to content

Memorial Candles

Memorial Candles shows low returns (0.8%), but a small market ($31K/yr) keeps it on the watch list.

Flapen Score

50
Worth a look

Ranks 2,970 of 5,777 Home & Garden niches · −1 vs the category median of 51

Market size 8Growth 9Conversion 34Competition 79Returns 96Price range 38Avg price 33Brand share 81Review moat 91Quality gap 60
This niche Category average · 5,777 niches

Is Memorial Candles profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Memorial Candles is a £31K/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (113K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 54% of demand. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Verdict: Worth a look — 50/100.

Memorial Candles: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Worth a look. Search demand moved -31.9% over the last 90 days and 2.7% of searches end in a purchase.

£31K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr4K
Search volume / yr-31.9%113K
Conversion rate2.7%
Avg price£9.99

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 54% of demand, so 46% of the market is open.

46%

open market share

Brands · sellers30 · 56
Top-5 product click share36%
Open market46%
Avg brand age35 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.4★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 43 products

Sponsored placement81%
New entrants (1y)16· 0 succeeded
Avg rating4.4★
Avg reviews184

Top Memorial Candles 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

Clicks spread well past the top 5 (36% combined) — an open shelf where new products get seen.

£0£920£2K£3K£4K1101001K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

30 falling

Sellers

56

Top-5 brand share

54%

Top 20: 91%

Top-5 click share

36%

Top 20: 76%

Open market

42%

  • Angels Wings and Feathers Thoughtful Memorial Gifts16%
  • Widdop and Co14%
  • Pomchick9%
  • Old times8%
  • Cumnvulnt6%
  • HELQIBR4%

Memorial Candles demand & seasonality

Weekly search volume, with the niche's key stats alongside.

Volume113KCVR2.7%Products43Brands30Top 5 Brands54%OOS Rate5.8%Rating4.4★Reviews184Avg BSR#294
5K3KSpike '25Holiday '25JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.1×

Top Memorial Candles search terms shoppers use

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

  • memorial candle47K/yr
  • remembrance candle16K/yr
  • sympathy candle9K/yr
  • memory candle11K/yr
  • in loving memory candle10K/yr
  • memory candle for lost ones8K/yr
  • bereavement candle6K/yr
  • memorial candles6K/yr

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Memorial Candles

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

What buyers love

88% of reviews
Gifting Purpose24%

Sympathy gift

Smell18%

The fresh scent was lovely

Quality-Overall16%

Beautifully crafted

Brightness/Shine/Glow11%

It is quite bright

Size-Overall6%

Good size

What buyers complain about

65% of reviews
Size-Overall28%

This memorial candle holder is bigger than I expected it to be

Value For Money9%

It's bordering on the high price for a candle

Advertised Vs Actual Product6%

Product LED light does not match the picture online or on the box

Material Quality4%

It's plastic, and the wording was wonky, looks cheap, feels cheap, that's why it was cheap

Rusts/Corrodes4%

Went rusty quickly beacause of the good old english weather

Memorial Candles return rate & reasons

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

0.8%

Return rate

44%

Fixable by listing

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

1Size-Overall
38%
2Defective Material/Parts
12%
3Quality-Overall
11%
4Gifting Purpose
6%
5Adhesion/Stickiness
5%

Common Memorial Candles questions

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

Flapen scores Memorial Candles 50/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Worth a look. The niche generates £31K/yr across 43 tracked products. 0 of 16 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved -31.9% over the last 90 days.
Search demand for Memorial Candles on Amazon United Kingdom peaks in Nov–Dec, where the busiest month runs 3.1× the quietest.