What's Your Favorite Fp-Related Smell?

[PabloAU]

There are many smells I've come to associate with various items in the FP world, such as:

• The camphor of celluloid
• The phenol of Pilot inks
• The leather (and/or glue) of a new pen case
• The wet-dog of a new Noodler's Konrad

So, what's your favorite smell? Have you used any of the scented inks?

 

I love the smell of the celluloid on my Ogiva Vintage

[TheRealScubaSteve]

I like the smell of my one celluloid pen. I've tried J. Herbin's sample pack of scented inks, but the colors were very bland and underwhelming.

[dragos.mocanu]

• The aroma of clear Noodler's plant resin...it smells like almonds
• The smell of the Noodler's bulletproof formula (I find it intoxicatingly pleasant)
• The smell of a vintage pen, and how each and every one has a slightly different aroma (the new, acrylic pens, all smell the same)
• The rusty/bloody smell of iron-gall inks when smeared on my fingers (a bit creepy, I know..)

 

...and yeah, I usually enjoy smelling stuff that I like more than the average person (especially that clear Ahab...)

[Mr.Rene]

Phenol in any vintage ink

Celluloid in Parker Vacumatic pens

[TheRealScubaSteve]

Is there a study on the long-term side effects of huffing sniffing resin, celluloid, or fountain pen ink?

[wastelanded]

I love the smell of old ink, like vintage Skrip. It takes me back to childhood instantly. The Japanese inks are similar, but far more powerful. You could preserve stuff in Sailor inks, like formaldehyde.

[F104]

• The phenol of Pilot inks

There's phenol in Pilot ink? Doesn't that stuff make you living impaired?

 

So, what's your favorite smell? Have you used any of the scented inks?

 

Other than a little bit of new-leather smell from cases, and a wee whiff of acrylic from my Edison pens, I haven't noticed any smells--except for Pilot Black--which isn't a bad thing, with my allergies: often, if I can smell a thing, I have a reaction of one degree or another to it. It makes me more focused on disliked smells rather than smells liked. So I don't, now that I think about it, have a favorite pen smell. Or a favorite smell, period.

 

I avoid scented inks like the plague, naturally.

 

Now I think I'm gonna go hermetically seal all my Iroshizuku bottles in a lead-lined casket.

[bsenn]

Phenol in any vintage ink

Celluloid in Parker Vacumatic pens

Yes, Parker Vacs have the best pen-related smell. For sure. No doubt. Hands down.

 

Thick black markers are a distant second.

 

Brian

[Water Ouzel]

The smell of my father's old fountain pen ink. Which I haven't smelled in probably 45 years or more. And we have no idea where the pen went when he passed.

[LamyOne]

There's phenol in Pilot ink? Doesn't that stuff make you living impaired?

 

Hello F104,

 

Phenol, in its raw and uncut state can be quite life threatening; in fact, the vapors alone can permanently blind you and burn your lungs - the liquid doesn't even have to touch you, (which is why the higher concentrations have been banned here in the States and most of Europe). But, in fp inks, your dealing with a heavily diluted formula, the most it will do is irritate your skin or sting your eyes - and you'd need actual liberal contact with the liquid itself - I still wouldn't want it to happen, though.

 

Hello All,

 

I too like the smell of Phenol in inks; I also like the smell of some Noodler's inks - they smell exactly like the finger paints I used to use in college... kindergarten.

 

Best regards,

 

Chris

[TSherbs]

 

• The aroma of clear Noodler's plant resin...it smells like almonds
• The smell of the Noodler's bulletproof formula (I find it intoxicatingly pleasant)
• The smell of a vintage pen, and how each and every one has a slightly different aroma (the new, acrylic pens, all smell the same)
• The rusty/bloody smell of iron-gall inks when smeared on my fingers (a bit creepy, I know..)

 

...and yeah, I usually enjoy smelling stuff that I like more than the average person (especially that clear Ahab...)

 

weird, I agree on all of these

 

and I love the smell of books (partly how I shop)

[Bookman]

Phenol. When I say I love the smell of fountain pen ink in the morning, I'm talking about phenol. The phenol additive should be an option for all inks, like leather seats in a car.

[WetNoodle]

Creeper thread.

[Sasha Royale]

Sitting outside on the wooden deck, writing letters with my fountain pen.

I like the cool breeze blowing from the stand of pine trees from the distance.

On the table will be a piece of fruit, and a glass, a bottle.

 

Okay. The smell that I associate most with writing with a fountain pen is Jamison's Irish Whiskey.

[inkstainedruth]

The scent of De Atramentis Red Roses. That's just an added bonus to a great color.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Lou Erickson]

Phenol. When I say I love the smell of fountain pen ink in the morning, I'm talking about phenol. The phenol additive should be an option for all inks, like leather seats in a car.

 

I grant your wish!

 

See this post in the biocides thread on where to get some so you can dose your own inks.

[Tojusi]

I am surprised that no one has mentioned the smell of ebonite.

[Hallel]

Ebonite, old celluloid, and phenol. I'm not ashamed to admit that I sometimes huff my ink. ^~^

 

Also, the fresh smell of a new notebook that's never been cracked open before.

[siopaopei]

I got a few celluloid vintage pens, my favorite of which is my Parker Vacumatic major. After I uncap it, it's become almost a reflex to sniff it first before I write. a good, long, deeply satisfying whiff. I must look weird to bystanders, so happily sniffing my pen. ^_^

[Kuhataparunks]

Noodlers black has a sugary smell which I don't like, but every time I think of fountain pens and scents, I think of that strong smell of Pilot Inks. Every time I uncap a Pilot pen with a cartridge in it, I get a strong whiff of that.

I write with my back hunched over like a bookkeeper (sorry chiropractors I know that's not good!) with my face close to the page, so I can smell it for the entire duration of my writing. It annoyed me after a while, so I transitioned to Iroshizuku ink. VERY satisfied with the colors, wow, but it succumbing to single drops of water is a huge huge downside which I'm currently battling.