I received this ink in the purple sample set. This is my favorite of the inks in the set. It goes on smoothly, and only skips or false starts when I am scribbling very quickly. Lovely color, comes through clearly purple even when I am writing on non-white paper. I really enjoy playing with the samples, but once this runs out I will buy a full bottle.

I love this ink. It’s really really bold.

Writes smoothly and a lovely color

I knew I'd love this ink before I even swatched it. I immediately put in a pen with a stub nib and the results were just as awesome as I expected. Nice ink.

Just beautiful. Strong colour and clear readability on Leuchtturm notebook paper.

Smooth, rich and classy like Hamilton himself.

The feel and the finish of this ink is lovely. The tone has a little more brown to it (a plummy-purple, if you will) than the swatch shows on a screen. But the experience of writing with it is really lovely. I'm so pleased.

Not surprised at the color since it's also named Aubergine, but it's a nice, behaved deep purple ink! Not a ton of shading due to how dark it is, but f you add a bit of water, you can see more of the eggplant color! Overall a really nice ink to write notes with!

Love the mood of the shading in this color

I purchased a sample of this ink, and I love it in my finer nib pens. However, beware when using flex nibs or thicker ones. In my Noodler's Ahab, it feathered and bled through on Rhodia paper. Other than that, it's a fantastic ink.

I was looking for a subtle purple ink, but one that I could still tell was purple. This is exactly what I was hoping for, a lovely aubergine. It's not as dark as Diamine Damson (which looks nearly black to me, no matter how bright the paper), but it's certainly dark enough to use in the office if I want. Flows well, and in my Fine/EF-nibbed pens, it dries quickly enough that I don't end up with the typical left-handed smears. I have not tested the water resistance. Overall, i'ts simply a gorgeous, well-behaved ink. I'll definitely be buying a bottle.

What's not to love about this ink? I tend to use it in my Pilot Metropolitan (Fine) and the flow is good, the ink well-behaved, and the color rich, readable, and attention-catching. It's dark but still noticeably purple without leaning too far to the blue side. The color is fairly unique as far as I can see and is just a joy to write with.

I test with a metal-nib dip pen and found this to be a little thin as I wrote, but it is a lovely color

De Atramente Alexander Hamilton is gorgeous! It's a rich, deep purple that is just dark enough to be appropriate for work, but enough purple that makes me happy when I use it. I just got a sample, but I will definitely be getting a full bottle!

I've been using this ink daily for about a week now and I like it. In a fountain pen on nice paper it has really nice shading. I even use it in my refillable J. Herbin rollerball pen on cheap Mead paper and it still shades noticeably!

I ordered samples of this ink and liked it well enough to order a bottle of it. This is a deep purple ink that writes a very dark (but not blackish) line. On white paper there is a lot of contrast which might be too much if you're writing pages and pages, especially with a medium or wider point. Even with a Pilot Metropolitan fine point pen, this ink still shows a beautiful dark, rich purple color. I'm not great at describing colors, but I'd say it's a true deep purple. It's not orchid or reddish in tone.For a purple that doesn't pop quite as much but still writes a nice dark line, I also like my Damson sample, which is a toned down, slightly grayish purple.

Love the opportunity to purchase small amounts to try different inks under true circumstances. This is a crisp, dark color and I will definitely purchase full bottle.

I was not expecting this to be so purple. The swab makes it look more magenta-ish, and it certainly does have a pink tone to it. However, it is purple. And it's an amazing purple! In my wettest pen, it bled through my Leuchtturm paper, though no other pen/ink combo had yet done that, and none of the other inks I used in my wettest pen did that either. So it's a pretty wet ink. But I love the color, and even though I have a purple ink already, I'm VERY tempted to buy a bottle of this!

This is a nice ink -- nothing outstanding. It's a good, solid, conservative purple; I would consider it an appropriate 'workplace ink.'

I was introduced to this ink as a sample and as soon as I saw it I realized that I wanted a bottle of this ink. The ink flows smoothly, dark when laid down and such a yummy dark purple.

The colour of this ink is described as aubergine, and it is a lovely dark purple. It flows well in the pen and exhibits minimal bleed, even on poor quality paper. This ink is subtle in its effect and is likely to become a favourite with me.

This ink is a lovely deep purple, very refined. No need to fear looking like you have written in grape-flavored syrup, this ink is beautiful and very grown-up.