Sailor Jentle Bottled Ink(50ml) Fountain Pen Ink

I have several shades and they are all very high quality and at a great price

This is a great ink. The green is really earthy. It looks fantastic. It shades really well, and it even shows a little bit of sheen once in a while when it pools up. The bottle is really shallow, but it comes with an insert that allows you to get enough ink despite the shape of the container.

Never thought I'd say something like this, but I love this ink. The flow and feel of it in my fine-point Sailor 1911 Large is just great--smooth and consistent. And the color is not a common black, or ordinary blue, but an interesting combo of blue and black with maybe a hint of dark green. It's like a deep ocean color--just the thing for a Sailor. (You gotta admit that's clever.)

Great Shading. I love this ink. Well Behaved. The only problem is the bottle shape. It is hard to get fill a pen once the ink level goes down a little.

Lovely ink with interesting teal colour. Needs to be well-lit to really shine as tends to look a little like dark green in dim light.
Fantastic fast international delivery from Pen Chalet to UK, would definitely use again.

Exquisite , Perfect in my 1.5 Safari.

I purchased two colors from Pen Chalet, Kin Moukusi and Chu Shu, and absolutely love them.

Kin Moukusi shades even in fine nibs. It's an unabashedly orange orange. There really isn't any other way to describe it-- it's just very orange. it's my new favorite Ink.

Chu Shu was a smidgen of a let down. In pictures it comes across as a dusty purple. My bottle is a dupe for diamine Earl Grey. Sure, it's a great grey-- maybe my favorite kind of grey-- but I thought I was buying a dusty purple.

Pen Chalet's service was great. My bottles arrived in perfect condition.

This was my first Pen Chalet order and I would absolutely order from them again.

The Sailor Jentle Yama-Dori ink is slow-drying, but worth it. It is a genuine teal with beautiful shading, pretty enough for joy and still dark enough for the office. I've read it gets a reddish sheen under the right conditions, but I haven't seen that yet.

Ahh, the Sailor Jentle, well- what can I say other than I'm very impressed with this ink. I have had some experience with Sailor inks in the past but on someone else's dime so I never got to really appreciating this stationary accompaniment. I felt this ink would be something special: gently shaking the bottle and inverting the ink into the built in ink well revealed a viscosity and sheen that demanded something less of recycled notepad scraps and heavier parchment with a writing tool to match. I grabbed my "Mark Twain" with a Medium nib, filled its reservoir with three meaty pumps and got to scribbling my John Hankcock as fast and as large as I could.

Sailor Jentle, I selected 'Shigure' (dark violet) is nothing but a sinister delight. Ink is right on the nib and with very little pressure, you wouldn't need much on medium nib, it flows right off the contact and dries heartedly. Right out, the ink settles dark but dries into a very vivid dark violet; my eyes played tricks on me when I first saw it drying: giving a dark brown look from afar but up close the violet really stealing the show.

The Sailor Jentle, however, is weakest on paper that's recycled or has thick fibers. I noticed that the ink was "fuzzy" on those types of paper due to the ink over-saturating and through capillary action during the drying time causes the ink to stain the fibers outside of the contact point. From afar you get "fuzzy/ hairy" ink but on closer inspection you see that it is as I described. I suspect it to be more so the time it takes to dry but the ink is nonetheless still spectacular to use and I believe it to be one of the more expressive inks I've gotten to use, recently.

Jentle is still a premium ink and at $16.00 for 50mL it's not the cheapest ink of the bunch (you can read my review of the 90mL [opposed to 50mL] Monteverde 'Blue-Black' for cheaper than and more of). While I am (definitely) a fan of this ink I suspect it may be the ink that I would use as a standard for being cost-prohibitive. I think it would be excellent for everyday writing but it's not so friendly on the wallet; for the price of Sailor Jentle it is for a full tank of fuel on my motorcycle (and that get's me to work). I would probably recommend this ink if you're really going for something premium and have the appropriate weight of parchment to write on; it deserves no less at the price you're paying for.

Really like this one. Color has been described as wet tea leaves. Close...and surprisingly lovely. Great flow,mwetness, etc. Not cheap but worthwhile.