Customer Reviews

I received this today, and my first impression is great. It has good ink flow so far, plus the spring and dramatic responsive line variation that I love in hair brush pens---felt "brush" tips just can't compare---and for a very reasonable price. It's also waterproof; after its ink had dried for just a few minutes, a thirty-second soak in water didn't budge it at all. As for the scent, it's kind of soapy-spicy; if you sniff the brush head it's pretty sharp, but once it dries on paper it becomes quite subtle. I would definitely recommend this pen, and I look forward to trying the Kyara (Aloeswood) and Musk scents!

PS: I bought the Sutra-Writing pen at the same time, and it isn't actually any finer than this one; it's exactly the same shape and unscented. Both are finer than the hair brush end of the Kuretake #30.

I'm a newbie to brush pens, so take what I say with a grain of salt, but I love it. This was my first one with a real hair brush. The hair brush is much more fun to work with than my felt tip brush pen and you can get a really variable line.

I didn't know what borneol smelled like when I ordered it, so I was a bit worried, but the scent is a nice, clean one, and it's not too strong. I don't know if the scent is real or synthetic, but it didn't give me a headache like some synthetic scents do. I wish the fine version came in this scent.

I received this today, and it's a good pen, but not what I expected. I ordered it together with the Borneol Fragrant Brush Pen, and this pen is not any finer---they're shaped exactly the same. The barrel of the Sutra Writing pen is a different color (a handsome brown with glitter), and it has NO SCENT. Otherwise the two seem to be just alike. Their brush-tips are the same size (finer than the Kuretake #30 I also got), both write very well, with the spring and dramatic very-fine-to-very-broad responsiveness I love in hair-brush pens, and both are waterproof---after their ink had dried for just a few minutes, a thirty-second soak didn't budge it at all. My first impression is that it's a great pen---I would recommend hair brush pens to anyone, artists especially, and this is a good example of the breed for a very reasonable price---just don't buy it expecting it to have a scent or be finer than the fragrant pens.

Kyara means Agarwood (or Aloeswood) in English. The smell is not over powering, you have to put your nose very close to the paper to smell it.

It has a very high quality brush head, that makes it very versatile, I can write small (Chinese) characters as well as medium (about 1.5" x1.5") characters.

I don't really want to buy this brush pen with Gray Ink, but somehow I place the wrong order and received it.
The brush is very good, sharp, and the strokes are crisp and clean, although the Gray color is more like a water down black, semi-transparent. Maybe it's good for water painting?