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Mainstays Candles

Fail

Demand is soft, at -31.3% this quarter, so Mainstays Candles is a Fail.

Flapen Score
46
46 / 100
Ranks 9,041 of 14,768 Health & Household niches · −3 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$39K/yr92K searches / yr
90-day growth
-31.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
42%top-5 click share · 15 brands · 195 sellers

Flapen Score

Mainstays Candles against its category

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

46Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Mainstays Candles market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Mainstays Candles 92K times last year and spent an estimated $39K. The top 5 brands take 90% of clicks. Demand peaks in Oct–Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 46 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 2.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 92K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -31.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $39K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
92K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-31.3%
Conversion, latest week
2.3%
Market size, estimated
$39Ka year
Peak month
December2.7× the quietest month
Top search term
mainstays candles48K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $18.14.

Listings sell for $18.14 on average, from $6.25 to $46.24. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 3K to 3K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $18.14 that is $0 to $2K a year per listing.

Average price
$18.14inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$6.25–$46.24
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
3K–3K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$2K
Returns
0.6%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

34% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 68% ship with Prime. On an average day, 5.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #2,269 within Aromatherapy. It carries 1,602 reviews at 4.35 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
34%
Prime listings
68%
Out of stock, average day
5.6%
Average rank
#2,269in Aromatherapy
Average rating
4.35 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
1,602per listing
Listings tracked
53

04 · Newcomers

2 of last year's 3 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

3 products launched here in the last 12 months. 2 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 57 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
3
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
57 months

Products

Top Mainstays Candles 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 42% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

15 falling

Sellers

195

Top-5 brand share

90%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

42%

Top 20: 73%

Open market

8%

  • Brand 145%
  • Brand 229%
  • Brand 38%
  • Brand 44%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 63%
  • Open — no brand owns it (9 brands, 8%)

Demand

Mainstays Candles search demand

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

4K3KSpike '24Black Friday '24Spike '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Oct, Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.7×

Search terms

Top Mainstays Candles search terms shoppers use

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

  • mainstays candles48K/yr
  • mainstay candles11K/yr
  • candle lite scented candles4K/yr
  • candle lite9K/yr
  • candle-lite5K/yr
  • mainstays candle3K/yr
  • candlelite candles3K/yr
  • candle lite candles clearance7K/yr
  • candle-lite scented candles2K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Mainstays Candles

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

67%of positive reviews mention “Smell”
64%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.6%of orders come back
“Bad smell”
A buyer, on “Smell”64% 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 Mainstays Candles questions

Answered from the same tracked data.