J. Herbin Scented Fountain Pen Ink - Sample Set of 5 Scents - 10 ml Bottles

Bought these inks for a quick and easy way to force myself to try colors other than black, blue and blue-black >_< ... as it so happens, these inks come in cutesy little bottles that close nice and tight, and happen to write rather nicely in the quick test with a Zebra G-Nib that I did. The colors are nice and bright/vibrant and the scents are spot on... or so my mother, who loves/grows flowers, confirmed since a flower is pretty much a flower to me. I can attest that the apple and the orange are nice and fruity. The colors seem to vary in their water resistance as well. I was particularly impressed that you could not only smell the scents while writing, but you could smell them from a foot or two away even about half an hour after drying on the page! I can imagine someone taking notes would freshen a classroom with this stuff. All in all this is a great deal if you can't seem to break into different colors, and don't want to commit to a larger vial of a single color. Of course they would also make a fantastic gift for anyone who is into scrap-booking or making greeting cards, etc. I only took a point away because the little ink bottles are not individually labeled, so just grab out some paper and write up labels for them as you test them out and tape the sniffable strips to the vials.

The scents are indeed very strong, but only while in the bottle. When used in a pen the color comes out very nicely, and they write smoothly, but the scent doesn't carry with it.

The other reviewer noted that these could be smelled from several feet away? Not in my case, even in the bottles.

They smell great, however, and the colors are interesting.

It may be worth noting that my set came opened with most of the colors having spilled all over suggesting that these had been opened at some point. Perhaps that's the reason for the lack of strong odor?