on saleNoodler's Rose in the Louvre - 3oz Bottled Ink

I love buying from Goulet. The packaging is impeccable AND fun. The sticker and the sucker. The new ink is gorgeous. Great saturation. It is a deep rose. Well-behaved, even on the inexpensive paper I use. I inked up 2 pens. It us the perfect match for my new Lamy Safari AL in Autmn Pink. Which is a great pen. I even put in my Noodler's Creaper Flex, (King Philip Purple) which is a dinky little thing. The wetter ink helped it write smoother. I previously had
Herbin Rouge Grenat in it. So I love my new ink and I love Goulet.

ottoman rose is GORGEOUS, a rich pink that shades from bright magenta to deep pinky-plum. but its combination of wet flow and slow dry time have made it difficult for me to find a way to use it without constant smudging, which is hyper-visible due to the vividness of the ink! some of the smudging is due to my being a left-handed writer, but i can't imagine that righties have it easier, given how long the ink stays visibly wet on the page: i wrote the second topic? item on my to-do list nearly half an hour ago and the dot under the question mark is STILL shiny and wet! i added magnifiers to my pic to highlight some of the problem�the vertical bar of the P in program is still wet after <10 minutes, and the i dot under to-do is, like the ? dot beneath it, visibly shiny after 30 minutes. this dry time is the slowest i've seen since i started using fountain pens. I've been using it in a diplomat magnum [F], which in my experience has been a very wet nib, on a rhodia 80g white lined A5 notebook. i have noticed other colors being a bit slower to dry on the rhodia and clairefontaine paper than my last tomoe river notebook, but nothing has been as severe as this ink, which is borderline unusable with this paper/pen combo for daily writing. i've given it a few different tries thinking i was the problem, but i think it's time to flush out this ink and retire the color until i can try it on different paper like tomoe river.

I usually don't like to use rose so much as I can't get over the girly aspect but this one, I like ! A very vivid dark pink verging on magenta. If it was not for the label I would have called it sensual. As usual with most Noodler's inks, it's a very saturated ink. It is rather well behaved and the ink properties are normal with a rather slow drying time unfortunately. Its high saturation makes it rather dark which is good for Extra Fine nibs, but to me it really shines with a nice broad or stub. I recommend it.

Love Noodler's Ink, have several bottles. This color was a little too bright for my tastes and was pretty dry. Looks great in very broad nibs and some art work my daughter did.

This is a terrific ink. I'm just starting to dabble in the huge array of colors out there, and wanted a red that was this kind of a shade. I used it for some lettering with a 1.5 nib, and it was just lovely, exactly the color I was looking for. It's my new favorite ink...so far. And 3 oz. of it will be sure to go a long way.