Please Recommend An Ink With A Pleasent Smell

[Patrick L]

Just live everyone here I happen to love inks. I don't only like the ink color, saturation , and so on, but I also love their smell. Please recommend an ink with a nice smell.

Best wishes

Patrick

[sansenri]

J.Herbin makes scented inks, other brands do also

there was some discussion about this several years ago

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/212817-scented-ink-brands/

 

on the other hand some inks are not scented but they have a peculiar smell often given by the dye or by the preservative.

 

for example

Diamine Sargasso Sea has a peculiar earthy smell.

KWZ inks usually smell similar to vanilla with a hint of medicinal, but I think it's the preservative.

[mannschott]

Scabiosa smells like maple syrup to me, but maybe I am just odd. (So do Salix and Pelikan 4001 Blue Black)

[Freddy]

Just live everyone here I happen to love inks. I don't only like the ink color, saturation , and so on, but I also love their smell. Please recommend an ink with a nice smell.

Best wishes

Patrick

Vintage {old} Waterman's Blue-Black....

Fred

[Karmachanic]

KWZ

[ScarletWoodland]

Another vote for the warm vanilla of KWZ (Standard not Iron Gall, as there's a hint of fertiliser about those )

[Maccabeus]

I love the smell of Noodler's 54th Massachusetts

 

DeAtramentis "tobacco" and "whiskey" both smell good.

[welch]

(Vintage) Parker Quink with the magic ingredient Solv-X. It cleans your pen as it writes. Most of all, for this thread, Solv-X Quink smells like ink, and ink should smell like Solv-X.

[Sakura FP Gallery]

+ KWZ

[Dip n Scratch]

You got to write with real pens after infants school in the UK. I am not 100% sure about the pen, but a whiff of the ink... I remember that alright. Parker Quink Blue/Black with Solv-X.

 

I scored a vintage NOS 2oz bottle of vintage Quink for the real Solv-X whiff. I am about half-way through it. It is Permanent Blue. Blue/Black was too much to hope for.

I don't know much about the odour of other inks. It is usually the pens that have odours.

[Houston]

Blackstone makes a range of inks scented with native Australian natural aromas -- like blue gum and cypress. They're just lovely. Both the colours and the scents are great. I worried the perfume would be cloying, but they've done an amazing job.

[Patrick L]

Thanks to all for your great replies.

[Tas]

Another shout out for KWZ.

[lgsoltek]

I love the phenolic smell of Sailor inks...

[amberleadavis]

And De Atramentis has some wonderful scented inks. Plum smells just like plums, but the color is different. OH, and their wine inks are to drink for.

[amper]

https://www.jherbin.com/fountain_pen_inks.html#scented

[aurore]

I love the phenolic smell of Sailor inks...

 

Oh, yes!

[chromantic]

KWZ Honey smells great. I know this because the aroma pretty much slaps you in the face. I haven't noticed this with other KWZ inks, however; they may smell nice but it doesn't jump out like Honey does.

[lapis]

DeA's Ylang Ylang:

https://www.de-atramentis.com/de/advanced_search_result.php?categories_id=0&keywords=ylang+ylang&inc_subcat=1

 

Best (and actually quite authentic) smell of any of my inks.

 

In contrast, their patchouli

https://www.de-atramentis.com/de/tinte-tinten-patchouli-.html

also smells good (some members say the opposite) although it doesn't at all smell like patchouli essential oil....

[rokurinpapa]

Sumi ink

 

very interesting ink made by Kuretake , planned by Mita Sanshodo , rural stationary shop in Tatebayashi, Gunma prefecture,Japan.

 

Ryuno Black ... ... smell of borneol

Jako Purple Black ... ... smell of musk

Kyara Green Black ... ... smell of eaglewood

Hinoki Yellow Black ... ... smell of Japanese cypress

Hakka Blue Black ... ...smell of mint

 

rokurinpapa