J. Herbin -- Lie de thé

[Tournevis]

First mini-review. Could not colour-correct the image perfectly, but it's close.

Edited January 6, 2008 by Tournevis

[bdngrd]

Thanks for the review. I like this ink as well, it has a subtle, unique quality.

[Fox in the Stars]

I recently got a bottle each of Lie de The and Cafe des Iles, and I just love the Lie de The! In person it doesn't actually look greenish to me so much as it's the only brown FP ink I've seen that doesn't look reddish.

[Tournevis]

I recently got a bottle each of Lie de The and Cafe des Iles, and I just love the Lie de The! In person it doesn't actually look greenish to me so much as it's the only brown FP ink I've seen that doesn't look reddish.

 

That's what I like the most, the lack of red.

[Ghost Plane]

I'm another fan.

[RedRob]

Sailor brown also seems to be lacking in red - which I also happen to like. A nice, if not very saturated brown.

[AndrewW]

Are you sure this is really Lie de Thé? I have a bottle of it and it looks nothing like this - just a nice, medium to dark brown. This looks very much like the Vert Olive... I'm wondering whether you have a mis-labelled or dud bottle.

[skipwilliams]

I agree. Your sample looks very close to Vert Olive......my bottle of Lie de The is really a nice medium dark, true brown, no greenish overtones.

 

Skip

 

Are you sure this is really Lie de Thé? I have a bottle of it and it looks nothing like this - just a nice, medium to dark brown. This looks very much like the Vert Olive... I'm wondering whether you have a mis-labelled or dud bottle.

 

[Jared]

First mini-review. Could not colour-correct the image perfectly, but it's close.

 

I agree that what you're using looks more Olive than what I have. My Lie de Thé looks more like what is shown in Hana's review of this excellent ink.

 

Jared

[Tournevis]

First mini-review. Could not colour-correct the image perfectly, but it's close.

 

I agree that what you're using looks more Olive than what I have. My Lie de Thé looks more like what is shown in Hana's review of this excellent ink.

 

Jared

 

So does mine. Mine is browner than the scan, but I could not correct the scan. Let me try with another scanner.

Edited January 7, 2008 by Tournevis

[Tournevis]

Here is a much better scan with the right colour correction.

 

[Jared]

Here is a much better scan with the right colour correction.

 

Much better!

 

Jared

[FrankB]

I think I can understand why the Lie de The doesn't scan well. Who knows how many colors the Herbin folks had to blend to get this color. It is a lovely color in person, though. I switch back and forth between Lie de The and Cafe des Iles in my pen rotation as I like both browns almost equally well. - Cacao du Bresil on the other hand looks to me like used motor oil.

 

Edited: I forgot to thank you for a good review.

Edited January 9, 2008 by FrankB

[handlebar]

Great.Just what i need,another brown/green ink!! Thanks for the review.I will be ordering some of that soon.

 

Jim

[Tournevis]

I think I can understand why the Lie de The doesn't scan well. Who knows how many colors the Herbin folks had to blend to get this color. It is a lovely color in person, though. I switch back and forth between Lie de The and Cafe des Iles in my pen rotation as I like both browns almost equally well. - Cacao du Bresil on the other hand looks to me like used motor oil.

 

Edited: I forgot to thank you for a good review.

 

Thanks. I see at least three shades in there, two greens and a brown so a lot of colour in this ink.

 

 

[jbn10161]

Cacao du Bresil on the other hand looks to me like used motor oil.

Hmmm.... That sounds intriguing. Perhaps I do "need" another ink after all.

 

[AndrewW]

Scan number 2 is spot on! I haven't experimented very widely with browns, but this is the one I always seem to come back to. I agree with the comments about Cacao du Bresil - though I'd say it looks more like milky cocoa (the point of the name?). In any case, it is a dull greyish colour, and I rarely go back to it.

 

[Ghost Plane]

Au contraire. I keep Bresil in my stable along with the others. Out of a B nib Visconti it gives an almost archival look to my writing. As if words flowing off the nib were written long before my birth. Neat effect/shading.

[Neill78]

I agree. Your sample looks very close to Vert Olive......my bottle of Lie de The is really a nice medium dark, true brown, no greenish overtones.

 

Skip

 

Are you sure this is really Lie de Thé? I have a bottle of it and it looks nothing like this - just a nice, medium to dark brown. This looks very much like the Vert Olive... I'm wondering whether you have a mis-labelled or dud bottle.

 

My Lie de Thé looks exactly like the poster's, with very slight greenish overtones.

 

Neill

[simonrob]

I agree. Your sample looks very close to Vert Olive......my bottle of Lie de The is really a nice medium dark, true brown, no greenish overtones.

 

Skip

 

Are you sure this is really Lie de Thé? I have a bottle of it and it looks nothing like this - just a nice, medium to dark brown. This looks very much like the Vert Olive... I'm wondering whether you have a mis-labelled or dud bottle.

 

I decided I wanted to try this ink based on the colour as it appears on Herbin's site - http://www.jherbin.com/fountain_pen_inks.shtml - the box itself, and other samples I've seen at vendors online. The first bottle I bought had so much olive green in its make-up (a perfectly fine colour, I suppose, but not what I wanted) that I bought another from a store hundreds of miles from the first, hoping it would be from a different batch. Whether it is or not I can't say, but it's exactly the greenish brown as the first one, and almost as green as the first scan in this thread. It doesn't look remotely like the sample on Herbin's site. Odd....

 

Simon