Monteverde Inks With Rotten Egg Smell

[AmandaW]

Unfortunately it's been three days and no response from Yafa (and ten days waiting to hear from their Australian distributor) so I don't expect I will. The silence is very loud.

 

I think the biggest take away from this is to inspect all bottles of ink before filling a pen - a quick look for SIBs and a sniff just in case. I sort of did before, but going forward will make it a firm habit. I already do keep good records of what is loaded in what and can always track back. Thankfully the Monteverde Brown Sugar was only used with a glass dip pen to make a swatch the day it came home and never actually inked a pen so the only loss is the AU$15 I spent on the ink.

 

 

[Yohan Bjornlof]

I have a few bottles of Monteverde ink and 4 are fine but my Carribean Blue, California Teal, and D.C. Supershow teal all have a sulfur-y rotten egg smell. 

[Paganini]

On 3/11/2021 at 6:52 PM, AmandaW said:

Unfortunately it's been three days and no response from Yafa (and ten days waiting to hear from their Australian distributor) so I don't expect I will. The silence is very loud.

 

Longer than that for me. I think almost a month now.  I ran my Horizon Blue through a coffee filter and dumped some phenol in it; hopefully it won't be a total loss. Other than the part where it started barfing clouds of sulfurous gas, I really like ink! 

[AoKiu]

I had two bottles of Monteverde ink which went bad. I've bought them end of 2021.

California Teal developed a thick velvet layer of mold on the surface emitting a nasty stink. Charoite was growing mold which formed a slimy blob when attempting to fill a pen. Charoite did not smell bad but totally clogged up my Graf von Faber-Castell Classic Anello Ivory fountain pen. Had to remove the nib, feed and converter, clean and disinfect with Formaldeyde and Phenol before assembling back. I have many inks from Monteverde but will NOT buy anymore, no matter how nice the color might be.

[Paganini]

Sadly, I never did hear back from Yafa, and that bottle of Horizon Blue was a total write off. Fortunately, about that time I discovered Scribe Indigo, which I like even better anyway.