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Incense

Maybe

Shoppers spend an estimated $5.4M a year here. But the average product has 9,266 reviews to catch up to, so Incense is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
54
54 / 100
Top 26% of 11,240 Home & Kitchen niches · +5 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$5.4M/yr5.0M searches / yr
90-day growth
+1.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
63%top-5 click share · 11 brands · 78 sellers

Flapen Score

Incense against its category

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

54Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Incense market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Incense 5.0M times last year and spent an estimated $5.4M. The top 5 brands take 87% of clicks. Flapen scores it 54 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 9.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 5.0M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 9.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +1.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $5.4M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
5.0M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+1.0%
Conversion, latest week
9.3%
Market size, estimated
$5.4Ma year
Peak month
December1.3× the quietest month
Top search term
incense sticks2.0M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $11.68.

Listings sell for $11.68 on average, from $5.11 to $21.55. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 400K to 500K a year. The average listing sells 20,000 to 25,000 of them. At $11.68 that is $234K to $292K a year per listing.

Average price
$11.68under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.11–$21.55
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
400K–500K
Units per listing a year
20,000–25,000
Revenue per listing a year
$234K–$292K
Returns
0.6%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

52% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #33 within Home Fragrance. It carries 9,266 reviews at 4.57 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
52%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#33in Home Fragrance
Average rating
4.57 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
9,266per listing
Listings tracked
21

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are established.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 64 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
0
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
64 months

Products

Top Incense 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 63% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

11 flat

Sellers

78

Top-5 brand share

87%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

63%

Top 20: 99%

Open market

11%

  • Brand 152%
  • Brand 220%
  • Brand 36%
  • Brand 45%
  • Brand 53%
  • Brand 63%
  • Open — no brand owns it (5 brands, 11%)

Demand

Incense search demand

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

100K60KPrime Day '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3×

Search terms

Top Incense search terms shoppers use

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

  • incense sticks2.0M/yr
  • incense1.5M/yr
  • insence-sticks337K/yr
  • nag champa incense sticks221K/yr
  • nag champa134K/yr
  • inciensos aromaticos para la casa89K/yr
  • hem incense sticks81K/yr
  • inscents-sticks92K/yr
  • satya incense sticks72K/yr
  • incienso69K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Incense

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

53%of positive reviews mention “Smell”
47%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.6%of orders come back
“Awful smell”
A buyer, on “Smell”47% 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 Incense questions

Answered from the same tracked data.