J Herbin Bottled Ink(30ml) Fountain Pen Ink Reviews

I purchased the Perle Noir color, but I also have the Lierre Sauvage and the Vert Empire.

Perle Noire is an excellent, deep black. It’s slightly thick, which makes it good for calligraphy and flexing. I had read that it would be great on absorbent paper, but it is not. It’s a good ink for dip pens.

Lierre Sauvage is an excellent Irish green. It is nearly everything MontBlanc Irish Green is, with a little less shading, and a little less tendency to bleed on absorbent paper. It’s a truly great color.

Vert Empire is a dusty green, with some grey to it. On some papers, it looks good. On others it looks under saturated and hard to read. It’s pretty inconsistent. I would not recommend.

These bottles are poorly designed. You basically cannot use a piston or vac filler in these bottles, and when the ink gets below half, you won’t be able to fill. The neck is pretty good sized, though. You are going to want an ink syringe when using this bottle.

I bought Bouton D'Or (Gold Button, in French) to serve as a highlighter ink, and it works fine for that use. It is such a happy color!

I'm not sure I would write a long letter with the stuff, as it's very light, though.

All of J. Herbin's inks are well behaved and a good value.

Beautiful ink. Great service!

When I knew NOTHING about fountain pens or inks, I found my first bottle of J. Herbin ink in a stationery store and bought it because I liked the purple color. It was a great accidental discovery. Long story short--I needed a new bottle so this time around I bought Encre Violette Pensee with full knowledge of its quality.

This my first bottle of J. Herbin. Really lovely colour of Bleu Pervenche. Good dark colour of turquoise and a nice change. Appears to be very good quality and flows really well. Nibs and paper make a difference but I try and use good fountain pen paper and medium nips of steel mostly in mid range priced pens.

This review is for J. Hirbin ink Cacao du Bresil (30ml) tested with Rohrer_Kolininger glass dip pen: I think I found the right kind of gray ink to substitute the black ink. When you first write, there is a tinge of brownish hue but once it dries up it remains gray and legible. This color evokes calmness and gentleness without harshness like heavily concentrated dark color inks. My interest in ink is mostly the hue and the degree of saturation, so J. Hirbin inks became my favorites so far. I now have Virt Empire, Lie de The, Eclat de Saphir, Pousierre de Lune and Rouge Caroubier inks. I love them all and I need more pens now. Regarding the shape or size of the this ink bottles when I use fountain pens, I no longer worry about them because I now use the ink-miser from Pen Chalet. It helps me to re-fill the ink converter from the miser thereby allowing me to use up the most amount of the ink remaining in the bottle without much wasting of ink any more.

Just a nice color and can give that touch of joy to any letter and it's a happy nice color, good ink good flow. I like it.

Wonderful flow, dries quickly and has a unique color. What I was looking for, and as always, Herbin delivers.

This review is for J. Herbin's Cacao du Brésil ink. I love the color. It flows well, and looks great on the page as written text, ink drawings or color wash.

This review is for the Rose Cyclamen color. If you are looking for a very pure magenta ink -- think the bright side of Hello Kitty -- this is the stuff. No shine, very intense. I am using this in a knockabout pen (0.3MM Preppy Platinum) for daily use and it writes wonderfully and dries quickly (I'm not left handed either, so I can't say "really quickly" but quickly enough for me).

I also bought a bottle of the Lierre Souvage (green), but I haven't tried it yet and won't until I work my way through the open bottle of Private Reserve Sherwood Green that is in the OTHER Preppy Platinum.