Abstract: In order to study the volatilization loss of characteristic aroma components in reconstituted tobacco with tea aroma during warehousing and tobacco primary processing, the procedures of warehousing, loosening, conditioning, heating and humidifying, strip storing, tobacco cutting, and cut tobacco drying were simulated in laboratory conditions. The characteristic aroma components in the test materials treated under different conditions were analyzed by GC-MS. The results showed that:1)There were 39 main aroma components in reconstituted tobacco with tea aroma, wherein the typical representative aroma components were linalool, cis-jasmone, and methyl dihydrojasmonate. 2)Under natural storage environment, the volatilization loss rates of the characteristic aroma components were relatively slow within first 200 days, then accelerated thereafter. Nearly 50% of the characteristic aroma components were volatilized after 400 days. 3) In the processes of loosening, conditioning, heating, humidifying and drying, all the characteristic aroma components suffered a certain degree of loss, and the loss proportion during drying was the largest. Fast drying at higher temperatures was more favorable to the retention of characteristic aroma components when compared with slow drying at lower temperatures. 4)The contents of characteristic aroma components did not change obviously during strip storing and tobacco cutting, however the volatilization loss of the characteristic aroma components accelerated after cutting.