Poussiere De Lune - J. Herbin

[tamills]

If anyone has a bottle of the OLD formulation, and would like to get rid of it, I'd gladly purchase it. The original was my absolute favorite ink and I've run out. I can't find it anywhere.

[tamills]

BTW, here's a (bad) image of the original label:

 

http://i.imgur.com/ZtAfo8A.png

[Inkquest]

If anyone has a bottle of the OLD formulation, and would like to get rid of it, I'd gladly purchase it. The original was my absolute favorite ink and I've run out. I can't find it anywhere.

 

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I have to agree with you there. The original is/was my favorite as well. I ran out a while back and bought a new bottle, filled the pen, wrote a bit and thought I had contaminated the ink. I really *really* **really** wish these ink companies would cease and desist screwing with the formulas of inks AND continuing on with the same name. It's not the same. There really is no reason for a customer to have to research every single ink to find out whether a company has screwed with it, turning it into something else entirely -- which is exactly the case with Poussiere De Lune. IMO they utterly ruined the 'moon dust' look of the original.

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The new formulation is very pretty, and I do like it, but it is not Poussiere De Lune

[Bo Bo Olson]

Write a letter to the European Government in Brussels; they are the ones that made ink companies change formulas.

 

Rats that drank a swimming pool of ink died....

[crescent2]

When I first got into FPs and inks a few years ago, I ordered a couple of samples of PDL. I didn't like it as much as I anticipated, because it looked more gray than purple. I must have the old formula? Now that I appreciate grays a little more, I may have to try what's left of it. However, I like purples a lot, so I may need to try the new formula, too.

 

Do you think the small 10 ml bottles that some websites offer would be the old or the new formula? Those are the cutest little bottles! Probably not the best value; IIRC they are $6 and the regular size bottles are about $12 for three times as much ink.

 

I agree the regular 30 ml Herbin bottles aren't the most practical, but count me as one of the fans of them just for their appearance and pen rest.

[Aquaria]

The current formula may be new, but it's an instant classic. A deep, beautiful dusky purple that's sedate and refined.

 

This is the ink you show off fountain pens with to people who have never used them, because the richness and elegance of the color literally grabs people in a way that few other inks do. Ballpoint/rollerball/gel pens have nothing like it, which is what makes it so eye-catching to newbies.

 

I've probably sold more people on FPs with this ink than any other. J Herbin probably should pay me a commission for all the bottles or cartridges of it that my converts have bought when they finally made that leap to FPs. Because all of them, to a person, made PdL their first ink purchase.

[visvamitra]

Beautifully said. I tend to agree with you

[Inkquest]

LoL... They could have named it appropriately as J Herbin Instant Classic.

 

Or they simply should have named it "Not Really Poussiere De Lune, But We Recycled That Name Anyway"

 

Simply because... it's not really Poussiere De Lune, but they recycled the name anyway.

[abstract49]

I just inked up a pen with this for the first time ever (Pelikan M805 Demo F), and I have to say, I really like it! I like its grey with a tinge of color quality as opposed to being intense color with a hint of grey. It looks really nice in my journal with ivory paper, and equally so in my ink journal on white paper.

[Astronymus]

It was this ink that started my more detailed interest in fountain pens and modest collection.

[NicolausPiscator]

Somehow I have to say that in vismavitra's ink reviews all inks seem to be beautiful. I don not really like this ink - although I love it's name - because it is as we say in German neither fish nor meat. But here it looks great!