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Pillar Candle

Maybe

An estimated 1.0% of orders come back. But demand is soft, at -48.7% this quarter, so Pillar Candle is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
58
58 / 100
Top 23% of 5,777 Home & Garden niches · +7 vs the category median of 51
Market size
£343K/yr521K searches / yr
90-day growth
-48.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
33%top-5 click share · 17 brands · 65 sellers

Flapen Score

Pillar Candle against its category

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

58Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Pillar Candle market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Pillar Candle 521K times last year and spent an estimated £343K. The top 5 brands take 65% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 58 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 5.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 521K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 5.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -48.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £343K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
521K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-48.7%
Conversion, latest week
5.8%
Market size, estimated
£343Ka year
Peak month
December6.2× the quietest month
Top search term
pillar candle186K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £11.30.

Listings sell for £11.30 on average, from £1.57 to £28.89. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 30K to 40K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At £11.30 that is £6K to £8K a year per listing.

Average price
£11.30under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.57–£28.89
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
30K–40K
Units per listing a year
500–750
Revenue per listing a year
£6K–£8K
Returns
1.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

68% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 95% ship with Prime. On an average day, 5.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #173 within Candles & Holders. It carries 883 reviews at 4.32 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
68%
Prime listings
95%
Out of stock, average day
5.2%
Average rank
#173in Candles & Holders
Average rating
4.32 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
883per listing
Listings tracked
44

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 7 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

7 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 49 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
7
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
49 months

Products

Top Pillar 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 27, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 33% of clicks, no more. An open shelf where new products get seen.

£0£10K£21K£31K£41K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

17 falling

Sellers

65

Est. top-5 brand share

65%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

33%

Top 20: 79%

Open market

27%

  • BOLSIUS23%
  • Ivyline14%
  • Spaas10%
  • HORECA CANDLES9%
  • ugbem9%
  • Wax Lyrical9%

Demand

Pillar Candle search demand

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

30K20KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 6.2×

Search terms

Top Pillar Candle search terms shoppers use

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

  • pillar candle186K/yr
  • pillar candles113K/yr
  • church candles62K/yr
  • large pillar candles23K/yr
  • church candles large pillar17K/yr
  • pillar candles multipack31K/yr
  • small pillar candles15K/yr
  • candles pillar11K/yr
  • large candles pillar8K/yr
  • large pillar candle10K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Pillar Candle

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

18%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
34%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
1.0%of orders come back
“Very big”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”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.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Pillar 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