Lighting device with sparkle effect

A lighting device providing a sparkling visual effect, said lighting device comprising:

• at least one solid state light-emitting element mounted on a carrier substrate, each solid state light-emitting element configured to emit light from a light emitting surface;
• an encapsulant comprising a luminescent material, the encapsulant enclosing the light emitting surface(s) of said at least one solid state light-emitting element, and being configured to at least partly convert light emitted by the solid state light-emitting element to wavelength converted light;
• and
• a plurality of light-transmissive particles contained at least partly within said encapsulant, said light-transmissive particles having an average longest dimension extension in the range 0.4 to 1.5 times a layer thickness of said encapsulant over the light emitting surface(s), and
• wherein the carrier substrate is light transmissive and the encapsulant is provided on both planar surfaces of the carrier substrate.