Herbin Perle Noire

Review of Herbin Perle Noire fountain pen ink using a Pilot Penmanship EF nib.

Chapters:
00:00 Swatch color comparison
00:06 Zoom (microscope) photo
00:12 Line Width
00:18 Written review
00:33 Dry Time
00:52 Writing Sample
02:09 Subjective Analysis
02:54 Zoom of absorbent paper
03:21 Quote & Writing Prompt
03:47 Close-up of completed review
03:59 Scan of completed review
04:05 End screen, links to channel and previous review

Post-recording notes: Cleaning was quick and easy. The ink is black and the images look black. :) This ink was dark red under the microscope (like Private Reserve Infinity Black), but the smear was otherwise uninteresting, so I'm not including an image. The strange thing about this ink isn't the color, but why the behavior is so different from other reviews - it's supposed to be a very dry ink, which means the lines should be narrower than they are. And it's supposed to dry fast, but not for me. The lines do have nice crisp edges (not jagged like some inks), so if that appeals to you, this ink is a good choice.

The line width measurement is one of the lines used for dry time. Magnification is 100x. The grid is 100x100µm. The scale is 330µm, with eleven divisions of 30µm each. The line width for this ink is roughly 335µm. (For the curious, with 184 inks measured, the average line width is 291µm.)

PS: Earthquake not confirmed by USGS, but there were multiple reports of something like one; no clue what it was. Maybe the military were blowing things up...

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[piero]

One of my favorite blacks; however, for me, Aurora is definitely the best! Ciao

[llTheJVlusicInMell]

I find the Lamy Black a thousand times better than this one despite everyone loving on Perle Noire. Lamy makes all of my pens glide like butter on the paper and looks lot blacker than the Perle Noire. Am I crazy?

Don't know how this would be called but Perle Noire increases feedback of paper and Lamy reduces it significantly. I can barely feel the paper with the Lamy Black. Which I like. Considering the Perle noire is brand new and the Lamy Black has around 4 years on my shelf.

On the other side. I dropped my Perle Noire bottle twice and it survived.