on saleJacques Herbin Bouquet D'antan - Ink Sample

Love the color of this ink. It is my accent color to go with KWZ Brown Pink that I chose for 2024's fountain pen ink in my Hobonichi Hon.

I wanted to love this ink, but it is very dry and hard to use. It seems lighter on paper. I was using Tomoe paper. I was hoping to find the right pink shade, but this ink is not it.

This has be become one of my favorite pink inks, it writes amazing and looks beautiful on paper

I just love this ink. I utilise colour as much as words to help convey my message in personal letters. This one is appropriate when you want your words to whisper. This soft colour is so evocative of my favourite English rose that I can almost smell its delicate rose and myrrh scent. I noted more than one reviewer thought it a highlighting ink. This may be a bit of a niche ink for those who enjoy pastel inks. This one shades so beautifully in my vintage flexible nibbed fountain pen, but would make a lovely highlighting ink for those of you who find it too pale for writing. In a clean empty sample bottle I put 7 parts Bouquet d'Antan to 2 parts Gris Nuage and 1 part Larmes Cassis for a letter to an elderly person I thought might find reading the original colour a bit difficult. They commented how beautifully the colour looked with my handwriting, a honed version of vintage Copperplate. Do beware, it is not water resistant. This leaves perhaps only a small contingent who will gratefully utilise it for its beauty of colour, fast drying time and its marvelous shading attributes. Thank you Goulet for stocking this lovely shade by Herbin.

This is a very weird, VERY light rose pink color. I almost want to say it has low saturation, but if you use a broader nib it will shade very nicely. For example, I am currently using it in a Lamy broad nib, and the color varies from light pink to dark pink. Lighter-colored inks like Noodler's Polar Purple and Blue Nose Bear appeal to me for some reason, and this color certainly did as well. I don't often go for pink, however this one is just so...different. If you are looking for a true, solid pink then try Diamine Hope Pink. But this one... I have been racking my brain to come up with the right word to describe it, but I think I would say it is like a memory: not real, yet profoundly meaningful for the owner. That may not make sense, but suffice to say that any romantic note written with this ink is something I would keep in a special place.