Example of deriving flavour description category scores for Cig-TP1 (cigarette), with a total score of 1 for each flavour additive
| Flavour additive | Flavour description* | Fruity | Floral | Alcohol | Spicy | Herbal | Sweet | Menthol | Misc |
| 1,2-propanediol, 1-acetate | Unknown | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Menthol | Cooling; less cooling than (-)-menthol, with musty-minty notes |
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| 1/2 (menthol)+1/2 (minty) |
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| 4-cyclopentene-1,3-dione | Unknown | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Menthone | Minty-herbaceous (not green); dry woody notes |
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| 1/4 (herbaceous) |
| 1/4 (mint) | 1/4 (wood)+1/4 (dry) |
| Neomenthyl acetate | Fresh, minty, slightly fruity for (+)-neomenthyl acetate | 1/3 (fruity) |
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| 1/3 (fresh)+1/3 (minty) |
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| Menthyl acetate | Has a minty type odour and a cooling type flavour |
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| 1/2 (minty)+1/2 (cooling) |
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| 1, 1, 5-trimethyl-1, 2-dihydronaphthalene | Unknown | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1-hexanol, 2-ethyl- | Sweet, oily fermenty weak rose odour; fatty fruity-musty, tea-floral taste | 1/5 (fruity) | 1/5 (floral) |
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| 1/5 (sweet) |
| 1/5 (oily)+1/5 (fatty) |
| 1H-pyrrole-2-carboxaldehyde, 1-methyl- | Somewhat burnt, roasted, cracker, nut |
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| 1/3 (nut) |
| 1/3 (burnt)+1/3 (roasted) |
| Sum |
| 0.53 | 0.20 | 0 | 0 | 0.25 | 0.53 | 2.92 | 1.57 |
| % of total score |
| 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 49 | 26 |
↵* The flavour descriptions have been extracted from the Leffingwell flavour database9 or found on the internet such as the website of The Good Scents Company.