Flavor is an important factor that determines the overall quality of citrus fruit and directly affects consumers’ purchase intentions. Flavoromics is an omics technology to analyze the metabolites basis of flavor quality. The citrus flavor contains many attributes such as sweetness,sourness,aroma,bitterness,texture and offflavor. This article reviews and prospects the origination,strategies,methods and progress of studying citrus flavoromics. It is proposed that the focus of citrus flavoromics should pay more attention to consumer preference and discover the most important metabolites affecting citrus flavor,with a view to targeted cultivation or using cultivation techniques to enhance and improve the quality of citrus fruits in production,and promote the healthy development of the industry.