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Vanilla Candles

Fail

Demand is soft, at -8.5% this quarter, so Vanilla Candles is a Fail.

Flapen Score
48
48 / 100
Ranks 5,923 of 11,240 Home & Kitchen niches · −1 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$120K/yr169K searches / yr
90-day growth
-8.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
56%top-5 click share · 16 brands · 93 sellers

Flapen Score

Vanilla Candles against its category

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

48Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Vanilla Candles market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Vanilla Candles 169K times last year and spent an estimated $120K. The top 5 brands take 78% of clicks. Demand peaks in Oct–Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 3.6% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 169K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 3.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -8.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $120K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
169K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-8.5%
Conversion, latest week
3.6%
Market size, estimated
$120Ka year
Peak month
December6.1× the quietest month
Top search term
yankee candle vanilla21K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $19.96.

Listings sell for $19.96 on average, from $6.90 to $47.47. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 10K to 13K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At $19.96 that is $5K to $10K a year per listing.

Average price
$19.96inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$6.90–$47.47
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
10K–13K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
$5K–$10K
Returns
0.9%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

80% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 96% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #205 within Candles. It carries 1,438 reviews at 4.50 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
80%
Prime listings
96%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#205in Candles
Average rating
4.50 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
1,438per listing
Listings tracked
25

04 · Newcomers

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

2 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 43 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
43 months

Products

Top Vanilla 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 56% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

16 falling

Sellers

93

Top-5 brand share

78%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

56%

Top 20: 93%

Open market

19%

  • Brand 158%
  • Brand 28%
  • Brand 34%
  • Brand 44%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 63%

Demand

Vanilla Candles search demand

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

60K40KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Oct, Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 6.1×

Search terms

Top Vanilla Candles search terms shoppers use

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

  • yankee candle vanilla21K/yr
  • xl candle14K/yr
  • candle cute12K/yr
  • yankee candles vanilla13K/yr
  • kirkton house candle10K/yr
  • candle aesthetic8K/yr
  • candles vanilla scent13K/yr
  • canle9K/yr
  • candles cute9K/yr
  • high end candles luxury6K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Vanilla Candles

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

68%of positive reviews mention “Smell”
57%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.9%of orders come back
“Very artificial smelling”
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.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Vanilla Candles questions

Answered from the same tracked data.