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Designer Candles

Maybe

The average product has only 113 reviews. But the top 5 brands take 99% of clicks, so Designer Candles is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
63
63 / 100
Top 5% of 11,240 Home & Kitchen niches · +14 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$1.5M/yr933K searches / yr
90-day growth
+21.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
36%top-5 click share · 7 brands · 59 sellers

Flapen Score

Designer Candles against its category

The dotted line is the Home & Kitchen average. Past it, Designer Candles is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

63Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Designer Candles market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Designer Candles 933K times last year and spent an estimated $1.5M. The top 5 brands take 99% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Dec. Flapen scores it 63 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 2.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 933K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +21.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $1.5M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
933K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+21.2%
Conversion, latest week
2.5%
Market size, estimated
$1.5Ma year
Peak month
December3.2× the quietest month
Top search term
diptyque300K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $63.44.

Listings sell for $63.44 on average, from $18.12 to $219.18. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 25K to 30K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At $63.44 that is $32K to $48K a year per listing.

Average price
$63.44inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$18.12–$219.18
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
25K–30K
Units per listing a year
500–750
Revenue per listing a year
$32K–$48K
Returns
1.6%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

63% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 98% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.9% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #982 within Candles. It carries 113 reviews at 4.27 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
63%
Prime listings
98%
Out of stock, average day
1.9%
Average rank
#982in Candles
Average rating
4.27 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
113per listing
Listings tracked
59

04 · Newcomers

13 of last year's 17 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

17 products launched here in the last 12 months. 13 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 51 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
17
Successful launches
13Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
51 months

Products

Top Designer 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 only 36% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

7 rising

Sellers

59

Top-5 brand share

99%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

36%

Top 20: 67%

Open market

1%

  • Brand 142%
  • Brand 237%
  • Brand 316%
  • Brand 43%
  • Brand 51%
  • Brand 61%
  • Open — no brand owns it (1 brand, 1%)

Demand

Designer Candles search demand

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

45K35KSpike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25Spike '26Prime Day '26JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

Peak months: Jan, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.2×

Search terms

Top Designer Candles search terms shoppers use

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

  • diptyque300K/yr
  • diptyque candle219K/yr
  • boy smells121K/yr
  • salt and stone candle85K/yr
  • boy smells candles64K/yr
  • diptyque candles35K/yr
  • boy smells candle13K/yr
  • replica candle18K/yr
  • dyptique9K/yr
  • byredo candle14K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Designer Candles

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

57%of positive reviews mention “Smell”
31%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
1.6%of orders come back
“The scent is not as strong as it should be”
A buyer, on “Smell”31% 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.

19 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Designer Candles questions

Answered from the same tracked data.