I love the color but the ink feathers quite a lot which makes it annoying to write with on a thicker/more textured paper. I write with the Lamy safari EF.

Such a beautiful color

This is one of those inks that makes you stop and take a second look. And then a third. Let's start with the color - it's gorgeous. I happen to like the way it looks on Midori MD paper particularly well. I think this also is an ink that actually looks better from a fine nib because the more ink that flows, the darker it appears on the page and this one can get too dark if you let a lot of it flow onto the page. Ok, enough. Stop reading this and just buy yourself a sample already.

Nice everyday ink!!

Not an expert user (yet) but was just smitten with the subtle brownish purple color and beautiful flow of this ink. I had to go buy the full bottle - hard to find. Apparently De Atramentis Alexander Hamilton is the same color. I'm a fan of colors that stand out on the page, as this does, while still being complex and a bit moody.

Loved the sample so much that I bought a bottle. This eggplant purple is so beautiful. Goes on wet and dries quickly. After drying, it does smudge a bit if you have sweaty hands but I don't mind. I love it that much. And I just don't touch my writing again. I use this every day for note taking.

I'm definitely going to buy a bottle of this, and soon. I tested it in a TWSBI Eco with a broad nib, mostly on Black n' Red Optik paper and a little on Claifountaine paper. I'm still new to fountain pens, but I liked it very much. It's by far the wettest ink I've tried so far -- for reference, the others were J. Herbin Perle Noir, Poussiere de Lune, and Violette Pensee, along with De Atramentis Document Violet. With the broad nib, the ink is much darker than I expected, even though I saw many reviewers say the same thing. It looks black in most light, especially when next to a lighter ink. But even next to black, it looks almost black, but not quite, and there is a vibrancy and intensity to the color and degree of saturation that black ink doesn't have. If you look at it closely, though, you can see that parts of it look purple. It has lots of shading, considering how dark it is. This strikes me as a perfect gothic-looking ink. However, it's also dark enough and subtle enough that I think it would work well in professional settings, though admittedly I'm not in office work, and so not an adequate judge of that. It's an extremely wet and smooth writer, and very well-behaved, with the sole exception that it is *very* hard to clean out of pens. So you may want to dedicate one pen exclusively to it, which is what I plan to do, and be careful with it with your demonstrators if that bothers you. I haven't actually tested it in on cheap paper, but I strongly suspect that with how wet it writes that it would bleed through that, at least a bit. But it didn't with good paper. Another caveat for people with allergies, asthma, or sensitive noses or lungs is that it has a pretty awful chemical smell, which is seeming to me like it might be common with purple inks, as three of the four I tried did, but it's really only a problem when refilling the pen. This is probably one of only three inks I'll keep a pen inked with at all times -- the others being Poussiere de Lune, and a waterproof or water-reistant black ink when I find one I like enough to buy a bottle of. I did not personally test the water resistance of this ink, but I'm ranking it highly because I've seen it reviewed as good here and elsewhere online. Images are a test page written on Black n' Red Optik paper written with a TWSBI Eco with a broad nib with the flash on and off.

A slightly different shade of the purple star rating for this website. It works well in my faber-castell loom M nib. It's a bit paper-picky, light feathering and medium to low bleed-through. However the bleed-through is weird on one of my papers (above average smoothness and thickness, but still absorbent). As seen in the picture, it looks like the water aspect of the ink separates a bit. There is some water resistance, most of the color will wash away and leave a dark grey permanence.

I love it. It's gorgeous, professional, and feathers minimally on everyday cheap paper. I'm drawn to intensely saturated inks - think Diamine Red Dragon or Diamine Eclipse - and De Atramentis Aubergine is nicely saturated.

I love the color of this ink, but cannot in good conscience recommend it. It swapped up gorgeous (a rich deep purple, just stunning), but when I actually tried it in a pen, I changed my mind quickly. It is CRAZY wet, and bleeds and feathers like mad. I do most of my writing on pretty good copy paper (writing 15 pages of lecture notes twice a week lets me try a ton of different inks) that handles most inks just fine - some bleed a bit, so I only write on one side, but most inks do perfectly OK. This one was loaded in a TWSBI Diamond 580 AL, with a fine nib. It bled like crazy. It feathered like crazy. I had to keep a blotter page behind the one I was writing on to keep it from soaking through to the next one. Then I thought, hey, maybe it's just the cheap paper? So I tried it on Rhodia (90g ivory dot pad). It didn't bleed onto the next page, but it did bleed *through* the page, and even more to my surprise it STILL feathered. I still love the color, but there are gorgeous purples that don't bleed and feather like nuts that I can use instead.

If I could only have two ink colors (horrors!), this would be one of them. The purple is very vibrant and pretty. It looks great whether I am taking notes for school in a Mead notebook, or making lists in my Leuchtturn1917 bullet journal, or practicing hand lettering in a composition notebook. I've inked up both my Lamy Al Star and my Pilot Metropolitan with it and it flows well in both pens. I'm going to buy a bottle.

I test with a metal-nib dip pen and found this ink to be rich, smooth and gloriously dark.

It is a good ink overall Fast drying(I'm using lamy safari with a broad nib)But it appears more red than the deep rich purple that I'm looking for

I bought this a month ago and I loved this ink!!!! I liked it so much that I already purchased the 30ml bottle. It is a very beautiful dark purple. I have used it in a Pilot Metropolitan (F) in a Rhodia pad. It flows very smooth, great writing experience.Goulet Pens has great customer service, they pack the items for shipping with a LOT of care. Fast shipping and I received all the items in my order in perfect condition. Very happy with my purchase. I would definitely buy from them again.

I have several DeAtramentis inks and each one is great - and this is no different. Picked up this sample and will be ordering the bottle soon! I like deep dark colors and this one certainly fits the bill. Rich looking and flows off the nib like butter. I don't do a lot of flex writing, so can't speak to shading.But to be clear, unlike its cousin Magenta Violet this is much darker. I use it for professional writing all the time. It's just a great ink!!

I had really high hopes for this ink. Based on the swab, I thought it would likely be a serious contender in my search for the perfect dark purple ink for taking class notes in college. Unfortunately, it was somewhat ill behaved- it spread rather badly and occasionally feathered in my VP Fine. A little bit better behaved in a Metropolitan Fine, but not much. And then the color.... In sunlight, it's the gorgeous deep purple I hoped for. In most interior lighting, other than extremely bright daylight fluorescent, it looks dull and brown. Very disappointed.

This is the first time I tried ink samples from Goulet. I love this ink, rich, deep purple with a hint of red, making it the perfect eggplant like color. One thing about ink samples, it is very difficult to draw up the small amount of ink in the very small sampler tubes. I would not mind paying a little more for 2cc instead of the 1.5 cc.

What a beautiful, rich color. I used it in my Pilot Metropolitan (M) pen and it's a great match. It's almost black. It's beautiful on Clairefontaine paper but also very useful on cheaper note paper at work as there is very little feathering.

love the ink and LOVE that i can purchase samples to test out!!!

It is a bit more blue than I wanted but a very nice colour and writes quite well... It's a tiny bit drier than I would like... I will try Alexander Hamilton purple next I think

It's dark. It's dusty. It's like a darker Black Swan in Australian Roses without the shading. It writes very wet even in dry writers.

A very dark purple almost an eggplant color. There is shading from medium and broader nibs. Also, while it will release some ink, it is very water resistant.

Slightly on the red side, De Atramentis Aubergine is a deep purple hue that flows smoothly and wet.

Ink with beatiful color and flows pleaantly by the pen. Loved it, bought a bottle to use.

This is a nice deep purple. Not too girly and could definitely be taken seriously enough for proffessional work. More of a royal color.

Not a purple-black, the color is more saturated than that, but it is dark enough you could mistake it for black in dimmer light. Tried in a Prera M on rhodia and lalo verge, beautiful and well behaved. Not many inks are dark out of a Prera.

Aubergine is a strong, dark, opaque purple. I wouldn't consider it a purple to use if you're looking for something bright and happy. Instead, this can be a substitute for black, perfect for fine nibs. I keep this in a pen at work, and every Monday after sitting dormant for a weekend, it starts up just as dark as ever.

A bit lighter than I expected, but an attractive enough shade. Did well in my non-scientific water resistance test. Write on page, leave five minutes, put in sink and run the tap on it. Only ran and faded a small amount, stayed legible.

I have this ink pretty much permanently in my Sheaffer Agio, Fine. It is a great ink with good saturation, flow and shading. One of my favorites. A nice, non-shiny, plum color to my eyes. I may have to get a bottle someday.

a gorgeous mix of burgundy and royal purple; I will be ordering a full bottle of this one soon.