Caran d'Ache 50ml Chromatics Ink Bottle - Cosmic Black

Nice reddish brown color and a wet ink - lovely to write with.

This is a beautiful chromatic brown that comes out a bit lighter than you might expect, but with a charming tone nonetheless. The bottle is so nice I like to keep it on my desk. Not only is the bottle nice, but the packaging that the bottle comes in is pretty as well.

Pros: Excellent ink. Nice bottle design, beautiful colors, well filled bottle.Cons: Quite expensive.

Beautiful

Excellent ink, a little disappointed by the color, a little dark and lacking shine, but it is still a quality ink from a top brand. It comes in a thick glass bottle and its solid metal cap makes the bottle look imposing.The package arrived in a paper envelope that did not protect the contents. The original packaging of the product arrived damaged because it was a heavy glass. The labels on the bottle were also damaged by poor packaging. The bottle did not break and the ink is fine.For high-priced, luxury inks, the original packaging is essential since they are usually displayed in our studio.Fortunately, the ink is fine, but since the packaging was destroyed, part of the product's charm and value was lost due to poor packaging.

It works as well as other Caran d'Ache inks, behaves wonderfully on every paper I have used so far. It has this beautiful shading that almost glows. Very pleased!

This is a beautiful black ink. Do yourself a favor and use it on high quality paper to avoid feathering or bleed through.

I've never written a review for anything; good, bad, or indifferent. But i'll make an exception for this. First. i've been a fountain pen user for nearly 50 years, since i graduated from high school and that wasn't as unusual as it is now. I've also been using a variety of grey inks over the years, including Iroshizuki's excellent Kiri-Same and Fuyo-Syogun formulations, and Mont Blanc's Oyster Grey, all of which i can unhesitatingly recommend. So it was with real anticipation that i ordered this grey ink from Caran d'Ache, which cost significantly more than i've paid for any of the other inks in my collection.On the plus side, the packaging and bottle are impressive: solid, substantial, and unique. What's disappointing is the ink that's in the bottle. I found it so faint a grey that on the paper it looked the page had been written with a fine No.4h graphite pencil; that is, hard to read even under good light.After trying it in a number of my fountain pens of various make, I've reluctantly put this ink in a drawer with other inks that have been consigned to being used only infrequently, if at all. However, with all the other grey inks in my collection, all of which i think are superior to the Caran d"Ache, I can't, off the top of my head, think of what might use this ink for, unless it was for sketching rather than letter writing.