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Your cart is empty.These exquisitely charming inks, lightly scented and presented in elegant semi-frosted bottles, are perfect for fountain pens since they are synthetically scented and do not contain pigments. Fashioned with great care, scented inks are inspired by a tradition that began in Italy in the 19th century. J. Herbin and other manufacturers used to collect different scents from the perfume industry and add them to their inks. Known as “Les Subtiles” (The Subtle), each ink matches fragrance and color. Available scents: Orange, Red Rose, Violet, Lavender and Green Apple.
always MIA
Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2024
Herbin’s Red Rose scented ink is beautiful! Scent fades quickly, but the subtle rose scent as you write is heavenly. And this gorgeous color!
Maria
Reviewed in France on August 25, 2024
Encre délicate et raffinée, tant par sa couleur que par son délicieux parfum.
Eunice
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2024
The ink is a little more wet/thin then I like not the best for regular line paper. But it smells absolutely amazing as I write. I have other inks that are also scented but this by far is the most notable. If a nicely scented ink is what you are looking for this one is amazing.
Mina
Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2024
Whilst this is a lovely color and he bottle smell is very soothing, it doesn't scent the paper at all. I sent a letter to my daughter written in the violet and she told me she could smell it four days after it was written. I will try the lavender to see if it is any better. I'm thinking it might be better to scent the paper itself rather than the ink.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2023
Really a lovely scent, smells like the rose hydrosols I've smelled before. is less present in the pen vs the bottle, but that's probably to be expected. Sometimes it takes writing a few words for the scent in the pen to return, and it's subtle, but there. Bright pinkish-red on the page.
Sunshine
Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2023
The scent is very very strong. There’s no denying that it’s scented. It’s too strong and gave me a headache after a few minutes of use. It also doesn’t smell like violets. It smells like soap, but not good soap. The smell is going to get old quickly. The color is beautiful though, and it dries fairly quickly on Tomoe River paper. It’s smooth to write with too.
Frances
Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2022
The ink has a nice light rose scent. It's pleasant, not overtly strong. The ink is a beautiful reddish color and transfers nicely on paper. Overall, it's a good ink that I plan to use to write snail mail.Giving this 4 stars because of some fallbacks with the overall shipping/the physical product I received. The ink was shipped in a thin plastic bag, not very secure for a glass bottle. Fortunately it arrived to me intact. The ink box is a little frayed and had a sticker on the bottom. I keep my inks in their original box, so I wasn't too happy about the frayed box or the residue leftover from the sticker. The ink bottle itself has a small chip in the front, looks kind of like there was a bubble in the glass, so it's a bit sharp to the touch. It's nothing major, but it's unsightly. I was also a little disappointed because I expect ink to typically be filled to the brim, but this ink fills the body of the bottle, but not up through the neck. It was less ink than expected for the price I paid.
Abhijeet Rathor
Reviewed in India on January 3, 2022
No smell whatsoever in it. And this is when I smelt the bottle with the cap open so don’t know what to expect when I write with it
Arem
Reviewed in Canada on June 29, 2021
It was so strong I could smell it through the amazon envelope (nothing leaking), and for me it was not a pleasant smell. Maybe I just got an older bottle that had "gone off" but it didnt work for me.The colour was nice enough, but it is just a scented version of the "violette pensee" by the same company.
Amit Vyas
Reviewed in India on June 26, 2021
I absolutely love the colour of this ink. The smell, however, is almost non-existent. You can only smell it if you bring your nose up to the nib of the pen. The Purple/Violet ink, by contrast, has a lingering smell that stays on the page for a week or so.
L.Jane Guion
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 16, 2021
Great ink recommend
Michael Hammor
Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2020
It's got a scent, but its light. It seems to go away once you put the ink on paper. I use it on moleskine products and it doesn't like them, but it works. On thicker paper it behaves better. Its a nice slightly light red, but still bold. I love this ink!!
Me
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2015
Its simple, best red out of all reds. When its wet is the most beautiful bright red blood color you can imagine. When it dries it loses some of that brightness and becomes an also very beautiful slightly burned darker red, very similar to a light wine color. The smell is amazing,, strong enough to be felt across the room when you are writing and weak enough to not be annoying to you or anyone around you. The waterproofs(es) of this ink is virtually non existent, when its wet you can remove the ink completely with a little bit of air, it will smear of a drop of water touches your paper. Even when it dries, it will slowly shade off and eventually come off. This is a bad thing if you want a waterproof ink (for obvious reason) but it can be an advantage if you want a nice red easy to clean red (most reds are really really hard to clean, this isent). In fact I commonly get small splash of red ink into my white lab coat that go away every time i wash it without any kind of special treatment such as bleach.
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