The invention provides a method for identifying flue-cured tobacco aroma type, which comprises the following steps: distilling a to-be-detected flue-cured tobacco sample for extraction to obtain an extracting solution; determining the contents of the 30 aroma components in the extracting solution by a GC-MS method to obtain the contents of the 30 aroma components; performing 0-1 normalization processing on the contents of the 30 aroma components to obtain 30 characteristic parameter values; and taking the obtained 30 characteristic parameter values as characteristic parameters of a support vector machine model for calculation to obtain the aroma type of the flue-cured tobacco leaves. According to the method, the specific aroma components are selected, the penalty parameter in the support vector machine model is 0.05-0.15, and the kernel function parameter is 0.15-0.25, so that the method established by the invention can effectively identify the aroma types of the flue-cured tobacco leaves from different sources, and the detection result is accurate.