Customer Reviews

Very high-quality ink, and a beautiful color. I have a number of pens (especially vintage ones) that only behave well with J. Herbin ink. Lie de Thé is one of my favorite browns -- most have red undertones, but this has green instead. It gives it a very different character, making it softer and more natural-looking. It really is the color of strongly brewed black tea.

I tried this in my Kaweco Sport and it is wonderful. It's a lovely deep red. I highly recommend using Herbin cartridges with the Kaweco. It makes for an excellent writing experience. Do check to see if the international short cartridge will fit your pen. Some brands like Lamy have proprietary cartridges and cannot take the international size.

Smooth, a little too grey at times, sweet container.

The ink is of high quality. However, the ink in these cartridges is much darker in color than the Orange Indien bottled ink. For that reason, I am rating it with 4 (instead of 5) stars.

Great color. Looks good in my journal on white pages. Nice shading. I love J. Herbin inks. I have been using these inks for over 15 years and love all the colors.

Color is a browny-green. Nothing like the packaging. If you wanted to fake an old letter, this ink would look great, but for every day writing, it's sad.

Did not like this color at all... Its pale, looking more like lime green than olive. I can't even use it it's so pale. Gotta try an darker color since the quality of the ink was great.

This ink flows well but the color was nothing like i expected. I thought it would be more of an orange but it was more of a sepia color than orange. Bit of a disappointment

Good and even ink, writes well and smooth every time.

This is a very decent and well-behaved ink. I'd prefer a slightly darker black, but it's not bad, really. In my Ohto Rook it started up right away, flowed consistently (I think any inconsistency was probably due to my impatience and the fact that I didn't bother to clean up the pen before writing), and laid down a very pleasing line. The best part is that it's not bleeding through either a pocket Moleskine cahier or a Field Notes journal with this pen (wider, wetter nibbed pens' results may vary).

I felt quite differently about this ink. I thought it was much lighter and not what I had anticipated at all. I tried a cartridge in my Kaweco Sport Fine nib and felt it flowed more freely than the Kaweco cartridge I had used previously. The packaging is beautiful, but I might be giving these away. When I think "Sapphire" blue, I think of a more vibrant blue for sure. Lesson learned: check an ink swatch next time!

The ink flows out smooth and dries quickly. The color is a darker than what the color poster portrays. I would compare it to their portrayal of Bleu Nuit. The tin case is brilliant. I would recommend this for a Kaweco Sport. The cartridges do not fit Lamy Safari's. I will be buying more cartridges from J. Herbin.

Purchased this ink for my Kaweco fountain pen. The color is awful, totally different from tin sample, turns out to be a very pale yellowish green, more yellow than green.
I have to throw the cartridge away & clean up my pen.

BTW, I have moon dust purple from this brand which is good, so I'll still purchase this brand, but this color is on my black list.