The present invention provides a flavour composition which is a mixture of flavour materials, characterised in that the flavour composition comprises at least 8% by weight of the total weight of the flavour composition of ingredients selected from the following groups of flavour materials: (a) at least 0.5% by weight of the flavour composition of one or more of the following: a peppermint oil comprising 1-isopropylidene-4-methyl-2-cyclohexanone in an amount from 1% to 4% by weight, 5-methyl-2-(1-methylethyl)-1-cyclohexanone in an amount from 8% to 13% by weight and less than 0.5% by weight of eucalyptol; a spearmint oil comprising less than 70% by weight of carvone and at least 14% by weight of limonene; or mixtures thereof; and (b) at least 0.5% by weight of the flavour composition of two or more of the following: decanol, octanal, allyl hexanoate, anethole, aniseed rectified, basil oil, benzyl butyrate, camomile oil, cinnamic aldehyde, cis-3-hexenyl acetate, citral natural, citronella ceylon, ethyl heptanoate, eugenol, fennel sweet, geranyl acetate, ionone alpha, lime, orange flavour, para cresyl methyl ether, pinene alpha. These materials have been identified as capable of inhibiting the production of odoriferous volatile sulphur compounds by microorganisms present in the oral cavity, and so to possess hitherto unappreciated oral malodour reducing properties.

 
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