this is really pretty, but I'm not sure it warrants getting a whole bottle. I tried writing an entire page of it in my journal, but it's kind of annoying to read afterward.
eta: holy moly. I am now discovering the frustrations of trying to get a true colour scan. OK, the background paper looks pink, but it's not. But I'm not sure how to adjust it otherwise to get the ink color to show correctly. Suggestions?

My wife would love that!

Yay! A very kind FPN member, dwmatteson, corrected the image so it actually looks like it should. Many thanks, Don! See, with the proper white contrast it looks even *more* girly

limesally, I wish I could tell you what you would need to do to get the paper to not appear pink. I will do a review of Rose Cyclamen, too, and see if it comes out the same way. If it does and I can correct it, I will let you know what I did. I'll do this within the next 2 weeks--maybe sooner than later!

My experience is about the same as yours with this ink, though to my eyes it is a slightly purplish pink. I'll show it with a different pen.

Best, Ann

Oh! I see you've got it corrected--hooray!!!

Very pink!. Girly, definitely!.

Ya but a HOT Girly! Sure does look a lot like the samples that I've seen. The shading is nice. Thanks for posting it. It is one that I've been considering.
I'm not a real girly type but it's still pretty and different.

Cedar

My mom loves this ink!
I have graded papers with it, but not my first choice. It's girly all right, but Rose Tendresse is way girlier.

Ok,

I have to admit that once, when no one was looking, I actually filled a pen and wrote with this ink for a week or so...

I think it's my wife's favorite FP ink color


Cheers,
Tom

Now, THAT is girlie! Wowzer. And I thought Noodlers Socrates was girlie. Hah! It's not even close compared to this ink. I'll have to tell my daughter about this one.

I found this ink to fade rapidly under sunlight.

I found a canister of this ink locally, and immediately had to have it. I love this color. It is exactly what I was looking for--HOT pink. I also have a bottle of Shah's Rose, which online, looks like hot pink...but it more of a bright rose. I will try to do a comparison of the two when I return home after the holidays.

deb

Wow, now that is hot pink. My sister will love this ink colour. Thanks for the sample Limesally.

Eew. I am so not a pink person. Thanks for saving me from this one.

I looked on the Noodler's website and did not see Socrates. Is it a color from a certain seller?

Mike

Among USA-domiciled stores, Noodler's Socrates is an exclusive for Pendemonium. None of the store-exclusive colors (at Pendemonium, Art Brown, Swisher pens, Airline International, The Writing Desk, The Fountain Pen Ink Shop, and one in Germany?) are listed on the official Noodler's website.

I use it for corrections and marginal notes. Pink is useful because it doesn't show up when photocopied. Unfortunately, this stuff has a touch of blue in it.

Okay, I really want this ink now! Thanks for the scan -- can't believe I didn't buy it earlier today.

Thank you for a good review, limesally. This is yet another review I somehow missed when it was first posted. I guess it was a busy Christmas season and I missed a lot of stuff on FPN.

I do not give a flip how girly this ink might be, I love it! I have always seen it as "rose," but it is definitely "hot." It has a shimmering, fluorescent quality in person that I doubt can be captured in a scan. It seems to be alive on paper. I do a lot of writing for organizational and church newspapers and newsletters, and I do a lot of editing. This has been my favorite editing and notation ink for many years. I shall use this ink for as long as Herbin makes it.

In another thread, a FPNer asked what the most romantic ink color might be. My wife loves pink. Whether or not I think it is a romantic color, she sure does. I write my cards and notes to her in this ink and she thinks they come straight from Heaven.

I bought this color for my wife after testing it at a local shop. WOW! "Alive" is definitely the right term for it.

I know a lot of men think pink is "girly" but I am assured that it is not at all a girly color in Japan. This ink reminds me a lot of "Cherry Blossom Red." This is the color chosen by Subaru for their STi division, and thei STi badges feature it. I have a glowing STI badge in the center of my tachometer that greets me with this color every morning.

It's grown on me.

I don't know if I'd ink up with it, though if I do I certainly would have to doodle STi logos all day

What a lotta 'sexist labelling'

I have this ink and just think it's a beautiful colour.... I wouldn't use it for a whole lot of writing, and NOT on pink paper!

(Nice for your Valentine cards!)

I have had a few cartridges of this colour sitting around for awhile and decided to try it out. Bright and beautiful. Good review and a nice scan. I've only ever tried a couple of pink inks, but this one stands above the rest and could find a home with me. I have found the three Herbin inks that I have tried tend towards the dry side so, if your pen runs too wet for your taste, try a Herbin ink.

The sample looks much more 'fuchsia' and saturated than has been my experience with Rose Cyclamen cartridges in a medium-point Monteverde Charisma, where it seemed more of a semitranslucent hot-to-medium pink with a slightly bluish cast. Maybe I'll try one in a finer/wetter pen and see if it's different/gets darker shading.

Thanks for the info. A shame, but useful information.