The development of a soot model for turbulent jet flames using fuels, e.g., diesel or kerosene, is required to enable prediction of soot emissions from the gas turbine and diesel engines. For paraffin fuels, the formation rate of the first aromatic ring and hence the soot inception is determined from the acetylene concentration. However, in aromatic fuels, aromatic species are already present in the fuel, thus the soot inception rate for aromatic containing fuels must incorporate a dependence on aromatic species. To solve the turbulent flow field, the Favre-averaging forms of mass, momentum, and energy conservation equations were solved together with the standard k-ε model for the turbulent flow field. The combustion was modeled using the laminar flamelet approach. The inception model was first proposed by Hall et al. and was based on formation rate of 2 and 3 ringed aromatic species, and was calculated from the acetylene, benzene, and phenyl concentration. This was called the phenyl inception model. The inception terms could be replaced by the more conventional approach based on the acetylene concentration. This was called the acetylene inception model and comes from Leung et al. Experimental data from the literature was used to validate the soot model. Detailed measurements of the soot volume fraction, the temperature, and the mixture fraction were made for an atmospheric pressure, turbulent flame burning pre-vaporized aviation kerosene. The modeling results agreed with the experimental measurements when inception was modeled using the phenyl model. In contrast, soot volume fractions were significantly under-predicted when inception was modeled based on acetylene concentration. Original is an abstract.