Jacques Herbin - Violet boréal

[mizgeorge]

3 hours ago, namrehsnoom said:

 

In Europe, La Couronne du Comte has them, others probably too. These are small 15ml bottles, good for a try-out, but very unpractical (just looking at them makes me fear they’ll tip over)

And they do. You only have to look at them and they fall over. If you breathe on them, the whole lot fall over. And the (very pretty) little metal lids aren't the best either. 

 

But, they're a great size to just try out - I really don't get on with samples, and I wanted enough of them to justify an order - I think I got about eight - leaving out the colours I knew I wouldn't like and a couple that were just too close to one another to justify. I ended up cutting a hole into little block of dense foam (from some pen packaging) to make a stand, which worked very well.

[mge01park]

Phenomenal review. I'm wondering if it's considered to be a dark shade of the color and the shading level. I'm glad it's not a shimmer ink apparently. I need to compare it to the Amethyste de L'Ouraland the Violet Imperial just coming out now. Thank you again. 

[Anne-Sophie]

Thank you for the great review!

 

 

[Anne-Sophie]

On 6/12/2021 at 6:07 PM, mizgeorge said:

This might help. Obviously this is a different scanner, different paper (I swatch on Clairfontaine 205g cards), different monitor etc, but since the comparison is between inks scanned together it should give a good idea. 

 

IMO, Violet Boréal is actually closer to Poussiere de Lune than to Violette Pensée. I would certainly get both of the regular line again, particularly Violette Pensée, but wouldn't pay the premium for the Essentielle version. But I like the slightly less saturated 'thinner' inks. 

 

Very useful comparaison, thank you so much!