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Essential Oils

Pass

Essential Oils scores 65 out of 100, a Pass. Shoppers spend an estimated $8.9M a year here, demand is soft, at -9.6% this quarter, and an estimated 0.8% of orders come back.

Flapen Score
65
65 / 100
Top 4% of 14,768 Health & Household niches · +16 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$8.9M/yr13.1M searches / yr
90-day growth
-9.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
41%top-5 click share · 24 brands · 31 sellers

Flapen Score

Essential Oils against its category

The dotted line is the Health & Household average. Past it, Essential Oils is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

65Pass
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Essential Oils market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Essential Oils 13.1M times last year and spent an estimated $8.9M. The top 5 brands take 53% of clicks. Demand peaks in Dec. Flapen scores it 65 out of 100, a Pass.

01 · Demand

An estimated 4.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 13.1M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 4.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -9.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $8.9M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
13.1M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-9.6%
Conversion, latest week
4.8%
Market size, estimated
$8.9Ma year
Peak month
December1.8× the quietest month
Top search term
essential oils6.3M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $14.12.

Listings sell for $14.12 on average, from $5.75 to $36.98. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 600K to 800K a year. The average listing sells 20,000 to 25,000 of them. At $14.12 that is $282K to $353K a year per listing.

Average price
$14.12under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.75–$36.98
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
600K–800K
Units per listing a year
20,000–25,000
Revenue per listing a year
$282K–$353K
Returns
0.8%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

100% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.5% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #12 within Aromatherapy. It carries 17,792 reviews at 4.46 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
100%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.5%
Average rank
#12in Aromatherapy
Average rating
4.46 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
17,792per listing
Listings tracked
39

04 · Newcomers

4 of last year's 4 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

4 products launched here in the last 12 months. 4 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 62 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
4
Successful launches
4Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
62 months

Products

Top Essential Oils products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

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Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 41% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

24 rising

Sellers

31

Top-5 brand share

53%

Top 20: 96%

Top-5 click share

41%

Top 20: 81%

Open market

41%

  • Brand 116%
  • Brand 211%
  • Brand 311%
  • Brand 49%
  • Brand 56%
  • Brand 66%

Demand

Essential Oils search demand

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

400K300KPrime Day '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.8×

Search terms

Top Essential Oils search terms shoppers use

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

  • essential oils6.3M/yr
  • diffuser oil1.3M/yr
  • essential oil847K/yr
  • essential oils for diffusers for home781K/yr
  • fragrance oil528K/yr
  • essential oils for skin388K/yr
  • essential oils for diffuser465K/yr
  • essential oil set437K/yr
  • aromatherapy oils257K/yr
  • oil for diffuser209K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Essential Oils

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

63%of positive reviews mention “Smell”
57%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.8%of orders come back
“Lack of smell”
A buyer, on “Smell”57% 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.

15 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Essential Oils questions

Answered from the same tracked data.