The senses: smell

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I've noticed that when I write with my Private Reserve Black Magic Blue I tend to catch wafts of the smell of the ink. I was wondering if anyone else noticed this, and if they do, which inks smell the best/worst?

 

 

[zquilts]

I just thought that was normal to have a scent....great question. I'll be interested in any answers you get to this !

[dumdummuoi]

Many of my inks have scents. With the exception of the two J Herbin bottles, none of mine were meant to smell good, but I like their smell anyway. Favorite ink smell so far is umm... Noodler's. I think. I don't remember the scents real well when I'm not using/smelling them.

Edited December 17, 2008 by dumdummuoi

[HerosNSuch]

I don't know who makes it, but there is a boutique brand available around where I live in art stores and some of the old general stores. The reds(3 shades) all smell like roses. The blues( blue and blue/black) smell like violets. The black smells like licorice. They smell DELICIOUS.

 

As for the worst, I would say real, old fashioned india ink stinks to high heaven.

That may be just me though.

[Tsujigiri]

The "boutique brand" is probably Montblanc, I know they have a lot of special edition scented inks, especially around the holidays. Don't know what that does to your pen, though...

I've never noticed ink smells; I'll have to go check. The only smell I know for ink is the smell that my ink for Japanese calligraphy has.

[HerosNSuch]

The "boutique brand" is probably Montblanc, I know they have a lot of special edition scented inks, especially around the holidays. Don't know what that does to your pen, though...

I've never noticed ink smells; I'll have to go check. The only smell I know for ink is the smell that my ink for Japanese calligraphy has.

 

It's definately not MB ink. They like to prominantly plaster their trademark all over things that they make. This comes in (seemingly) whatever bottles are available to the maker at the time. I've yet to see it in the same bottle twice. I have an empty around here somewhere. When it surfaces, I'll have a look at the label and post the name.

[Gehaha]

I loved the smell of the former Waterman Blue Black. Nowadays something changed, it doesn't smell like ink any more.

 

greetings,

Anna

[PAKMAN]

I like the smell of the MB Seasons Greetings brown ink and DeAtramentis Vanilla brown ink

[emes441]

The only ink of mine that smells is PR Ebony Purple. Can't pinpoint what it smells like, though.

[Bismuth]

Funny, the first thing I did with my ink was smell it (Noodler's Black)

I did that with my second bottle too... (Lex Gray)

 

the black smells better...

[twinofmunin]

I can definitely smell most of my inks. I particularly like the smell of Noodler's Fox Red, lately... maybe because I've been grading with it a lot.

[biffybeans]

Sailor inks smell bad - but I love them.

 

My J Herbin Eclat de Saphir smells wonderful.

[andru]

This topic comes up quite a bit in Inky Thoughts" forum. You might enjoy to search there for "smell", "scent", "aroma", "bouquet", ...

 

Personally I have a nostalgia for the (phenolic?) smell of old Sheaffer Skrip Deluxe Blue. My Private Reserve Midnight Blues smells positively obscene, don't know if it's just this bottle or what...

[Silvermink]

I swear that PR Ebony Purple smells a little like artificial grape flavor.

[techman]

I love the herbin scents. So far, I have not been disappointed by the smell of any herbin ink.

[Ink Stained Wretch]

I've noticed that when I write with my Private Reserve Black Magic Blue I tend to catch wafts of the smell of the ink. I was wondering if anyone else noticed this, and if they do, which inks smell the best/worst?

I was making a test mixture with this ink just yesterday, and I noticed that it did indeed have an odor. What I was mixing was an 8:1 = P.R. Midnight blues : Noodler's Legal Lapis mixture, part of my sacred quest.

 

It has an odor to it. I'm not sure what it's similar to though. Women have a superior olfactory sense to men. This explains why men's rooms can get so redolent and we men don't really care while women complain about the stink from half a block away.

 

The Noodler's inks have a variety of odors, the older ones smelling different from the more recent ones.

 

Worst stinky ink ever: Hero 234. Smells awful ! Smells like burning rubber or something.

[RevAaron]

I love the smell of ink! Never had an ink I didn't like to sniff.

 

Hero Ink doesn't smell nasty, not sure if I have 234 though. The blue, red and black I have all smell too strong, like flowers. Really strong flower smell. Headache inducing in some folks I imagine.

 

My favorite is Omas Blue- lovely odor. Sometimes, you can find me with a tiny dot of the stuff at the end of my nose- the smell is distinctive enough to smell it off of the nib, and I'll use the smell of the nib to tell (before writing with the pen) if I inked it with Omas Blue or another blue.

[Paddler]

+1 fro vintage Sheaffer Skrip.

[Ink Stained Wretch]

I love the smell of ink! Never had an ink I didn't like to sniff.

 

Hero Ink doesn't smell nasty, not sure if I have 234 though. The blue, red and black I have all smell too strong, like flowers. Really strong flower smell. Headache inducing in some folks I imagine.

The other Hero inks aren't like the 234. It's carbon particle ink. I just sniffed the Hero Blue/Black ink that I have and it has a sort of solvent-y odor to it, not terrible at all. But the hero 234 has an odor that triggered a reflex in me that said, "This stuff is bad! Get away from it!" It doesn't just smell awful it smells dangerous.

[richardandtracy]

I fear that my sense of smell is dreadful. I can't smell the Herbin scented inks as scents - I can tell that there is something there, but the scent isn't strong enough for me to tell what it is. The only one I can smell is Noodler's Baystate Blue, and I find it gives me a headache after a few hours.

 

Regards

 

Richard.