The invention relates to a device and method for producing a package for a group (27) of smokable articles (11), in particular cigarettes. The package comprises a wrapping, preferably an inner wrapping, particularly of a thin packaging material, such as paper, tinfoil or the like, in which a material web (31) of the packaging material is separated into individual blanks (10), and in which the groups of articles (27) to be wrapped are respectively wrapped in the individual blanks (10). The device is characterized in that portions of flavorings and/or aromatics (42) for the smokable articles are applied to the packaging material web (31) and, after being applied, are reduced in height, at least in certain regions, by a working means, preferably in that they are smoothed flat and/or pressed flat by the working means (47).