Herbin Georges Lalo 13710T Scented Ink Lavender, 30 ml, 4.90 x 4.90 x 5.20 cm, Violette

Love this ink. Very pretty reddish color with a light rose scent. It has a permanent home in my botanical Estie!

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.

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.

I've never purchased a scented ink before. I must say, I am very happy with this one. It has a light touch of the rose scent. I'd be happy if it had a touch more, but you can smell it. It is a lovely deep rose color and the ink flows nicely out of my Jinhao pen. I'm thinking somewhere down the road I may have to add another bottle of scented ink. But it really is a nice treat for myself.

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.

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!

The ink smells great and it writes smoothly. However, after a few hours the color changes. I purchased blue ink which appeared blue when I wrote a letter to a friend, but after it dried for a few hours turned to a rose color. This prompted my friend to ask me why I wrote him a love letter. Seriously, beware: the ink will go from dark blue to rose red in a matter of hours after writing with it. See my attached photos to see the difference between the color of the ink when I wrote the letter and the color of the ink after it dried for a few hours.

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.

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

Love it!! Smell from the bottle is intense, like pure rose extract, but on paper it is light and doesn’t last very long, which is fine by me but something to keep in mind when purchasing. Color of the ink is gorgeous, dark red with a hint of pink, cool toned. I would definitely order it again, writing experience is beautiful, especially with a fountain pen.

Cette encre est sublime.

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.

Lovely intense colour, however the scent appears very transient.