Scented Inks

[Hobo Bob]

I was just wondering if anybody had tried Pendemonium's custom scented inks (or any other scented inks, for that matter.) They just add it to any ink you want! I hadn't found anything on it here, but was wondering if it affected the ink's characteristics at all (flow, coloring , etc). Or even if they smell nice at all... although that is *ahem* highly subjective.

[Dawn]

Hi, I dont have any of Pendemoniums custom inks but I do have the mont blanc cookies & spice scented ink.

 

I havent had a chance to thoroughly test it yet as it only arrived today but it does smell of spices (sort of Christmasey) and on initial testing seems as though it will be a good ink.

 

The bottle is very cute too

 

Dawn

Edited June 27, 2006 by Dawn

[DRP]

There is an ink available in Germany which is made from red wine. It has the wine color and apparently a wine scent.

 

I tried contacting a distributor in Germany and found that the shipping charges were obscenely high for just one or two bottles owing to minimum shipping charges. If you buy several bottles, the shipping charges don't go up.

 

Has anyone heard of/tried this ink? Know anything about it? Know if there are any US retail outlets?

 

David

[smudgy]

I have an ink scented by Pendemonium: my Diamine Monaco Red is scented strawberry. It doesn't smell bad, if you like strawberry ; I've had it for a while and the smell hasn't changed, and it hasn't changed the properties of the ink. The smell doesn't last once the ink is on paper; it does, however, linger on the nib of the pen, long after the ink is gone. Hope that helps!

[parker]

oh yeah the smell......i also have MB's cookies&spice and indeed the smell's still there even after ive cleaned my pelikan thoroughly...i dun mind the smell much except, well, i think it now smell like.......errrr nevermind.

[jeffbg]

I have a bottle of Noodler's Turquoise scented with a woodland scent. Very nice. It does linger in the pen even after the ink is changed, so that is something to note.

 

Other than that, it does not appear to affect either the ink or the pen. It is a nice novelty to add to the ink.

 

-- Jeff

[Goodwhiskers]

There is an ink available in Germany which is made from red wine.  It has the wine color and apparently a wine scent.

. . . .

Has anyone heard of/tried this ink?  Know anything about it?  Know if there are any US retail outlets?

DRP: Have you read Michael Richter's appetizing review of one German wine ink,

Manufactum (Galerie Jansen) Spaetburgunder, on his website?

I haven't come across any retailer or distributor for it inside the NAFTA zone, though.

Edited July 6, 2006 by Goodwhiskers

[tonydacrow]

Hmmm,

 

This wine-ink thing is interesting. Italians (Sicilians, actually) use a kitchen staple known as vin cotto; cooked wine. To make it, you boil about a gallon of red wine down to about ½ cup, give or take. All the alcohol and most of the water evaporate and you are left with a thin syrupy substance of intense color and remarkable staining ability (ask me how I know!). It’s used as a flavoring in cookies, among other things and is entirely water soluble. It is also rather acidic -- on the order of vinegar.

 

Now I’m going to have to experiment! I’ve been meaning to make some more, anyway. (Love those cookies and it also makes the best canolli shells!) I bet I could take some, buffer it to neutral w/ lye or sodium bicarbonate (ammonia?) and try it as ink. The resultant salts from the buffering might even help to preserve it from bacterial or fugal infestation. The color of the unbuffered vin cotto is the most remarkable deep, deep red. Ordinarily, buffering an acidic, red vegetable coloring toward neutral tends to turn it blue. Hmmm.

 

I’ll let you guys know how this thing works out…

 

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Edited July 6, 2006 by tonydacrow