Fragrance or flavor composition

A method for suppressing one or more offensive odors selected from the group consisting of age-related body odors, underarm odors and musty odors, which comprises applying a product comprising a fragrance or flavor composition to one or more offensive odors selected from the group consisting of age-related body odors, underarm odors and musty odors to thereby suppress the one or more offensive odors,

• wherein the fragrance or flavor component comprises a fragrance or flavor component acting on at least one olfactory receptor polypeptide selected from the group consisting of (a) OR2C1 and OR4Q3, and (b) polypeptides which comprise an amino acid sequence sharing an identity of at least 80% with the amino acid sequence of any of the polypeptides in (a), and
• which are responsive to at least one offensive odor-causing substance selected from the group consisting of trans-2-nonenal, trans-2-octenal, 1-octen-3-one, 1,5-octadien-3-one, 1-octen-3-ol and 1,5-octadien-3-ol to suppress the response intensity of the olfactory receptor polypeptide(s) to at least one of the offensive odor-causing substances,
• wherein the fragrance or flavor component comprises:
• at least one selected from the group consisting of the following Group A:
• 2-methyl-4-(2,2,3-trimethylcyclopent-3-enyl)but-2-en-1-ol, 1-(2,2,6-trimethylcyclohexyl)hexan-3-ol, 1,4-dioxacycloheptadecane-5,17-dione, eucalyptus oil, patchouli oil, and vetiver oil;
• and
• at least one selected from the group consisting of the following group B:
• tetrahydro-4-methyl-2-(2-methylpropenyl)-2H-pyran, 2-propenyl (3-methylbutyloxy)acetate, ethyl 2-methylpentanoate, 2,6-dimethyl-7-octen-2-ol, 3,7-dimethyl-6-octenal, benzyl acetate, p-t-butylcyclohexyl acetate, 3,7-dimethyl-2,6-octadiene nitrile, 4,4,6-trimethyl-2-phenyl-1,3-dioxane, 5-hexyloxolan-2-one, 4-methyl-3-decen-5-ol, 3-methyl-2-(cis-2-pentenyl)-2-cyclopenten-1-one, 3,7-dimethyl-6-octen-1-ol, 1-phenylethyl acetate, and (E)-1-(2,6,6-trimethyl-1-cyclohexenyl)-2-buten-1-one, and
• wherein the product comprises 0.0001% to 30% by mass of the fragrance or flavor composition.