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Scentsy Fragrance is a growing, international leader in fragrance, offering a variety of home and personal care fragrance products. The simplicity and value of its flagship product, scented, wickless candles heated in decorative ceramic warmers, provides a better alternative to burning wicked candles. Scentsy Fragrance also offers the Scentsy Buddy, large and small versions of plush animals with a fragrant Scent Pak™ inside and Layers by Scentsy, a personalized fragrance experience that lets customers build a signature scent using 11 body and laundry care products.Scentsy Fragrance products are sold through a network of more than 200,000 Independent Consultants running home-based businesses in the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.

Company Growth

Year Revenue Employees Current Consultants
2004 $140,000 1 66
2005 $516,000 5 200
2006 $2.1 million 25 849
2007 $13.4 million 85 4,655
2008 $63.7 million 230 20,791
2009 $176 million 445 50,000
2010 $381 million 750 100,000
2011 $535 million 980 151,777
2012 $559 million 1,110 181,108

Scentsy Story

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Company Facts

  • Founded in 2004
  • Headquartered in Meridian, ID, USA
  • Distribution sites in Meridian, ID, USA, Lexington, KY, USA, Coppell, TX, USA and Warsaw, Poland
  • Wax manufactured in Meridian, ID, USA 
  • Sold in the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, Canada, Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom
  • Privately held, owned and operated by Orville and Heidi Thompson
  • First location was a 40-foot ocean container on a small Idaho sheep farm
  • Company employees: 1,000+
  • Method of sales/distribution: Direct sales – party plan
  • Independent consultants/distributors: 200,000 and growing

Scentsy by the Numbers

  • 16,000 Boxes packed and shipped on an average day 
  • 161 Bathtubs worth of wax poured on an average day
  •  8 School buses filled with newly enrolled Consultants on an average day
  • 16 Semi-trailers filled and shipped in an average day