The scent isn't too strong. I suspected it would be. Still like the color. I'm glad I didn't just get a sample.

Overall, I love the color and ink quality. On less absorbent paper, the shading is lovely. It doesn't seem to exude ANY scent though, so I'm slightly disappointed. I have a couple J. Herbin scented inks and can smell them fine, so it's not my nose. Maybe I got a dud batch.

Love the scent I'm new to the fountain pen world but love fine point pens and what's finer than a fountain pen? Goulet pens look amazing and the Inks they carry are just as amazing great first buy!!!

I first ordered a sample of this ink, and I really loved it, so ordering this full bottle allows me to continue writing with this lovely color of this wonderful ink. The color is so original, and I look forward to many more fills and much writing with this ink!! :D

I do like the color a lot, pretty much what elderberry ink would look like on paper. The scent is noticeable but not overpowering. I'd guess you'd call it pleasant and unassuming. In my early experience writing with it on journal book paper, I do have a lot of bleed through the page. I just have to touch and hold my Twisbi Eco medium point to the page and in a few seconds it's sucked through the paper. Will be trying on other paper to compare.

I love the color but I'm disappointed in that there really isn't much of a scent. I expected more. When you write with it there is definitely no scent at all. I won't get it again

The ink is very smooth, it's easy to write with it. It also smells good: I did not notice it when I bought it and it is pleasantly unexpected!Little disappointment: I though the ink would be darker. It is much more pink than a dark purple (according to the sample). I made my own color by mixing it with a Noodlers X-feather and the color is perfect for me, although they tend to precipitate a little after a few weeks.

I found this to be a good shading ink in spite of it's darker color. The more absorbent the paper the less shading. This is a scented ink but that doesn't even enter in to the picture for me. You have to smell the opened bottle to get the scent. Unimportant for me. This ink does feather a little bit on sugar cane (Franklin-Christoph) & wheat straw (Step Forward) papers but seems fine on your vanilla Rhodia.

I purchased this ink with a Nemosine Singularity. I loaded it first thing. I did notice the scent, not sure if it's what Elderberries smell like but it's pleasant. I have inked this pen twice with it and it flows very good. Not extremely wet but not dry at all. I have had no skips or hard starts with this ink. The color is very rich and I get compliments on it from those that have seen it.

I got this for my desk at work to use in a vintage Parker 51. It has worked well and did not react with the older water based ink. I did miss in the product description that it is scented like elderberries... but that's okay to have our office smell good when I write a lot!It is definitely water based and tends to feather more than some of the other inks I have used at work.

This is perfect, not purple, not burgundy, just the color of elderberries.

The scent is very faint, and like all the other scented inks, it fades almost immediately. The color is the best wine/berry red I've come across, and the shading comes out perfectly with a Falcon, Ahab, or dip pen. I've tried it in several different pens--Falcon, Ahab, Lamy CP1, Lamy Safari, and Platinum 3776, so far--and it performs exceptionally well in each.

This ink is smooth as silk, has fantastic saturation and shading and the color is just beautiful. It is wet but so far does not bleed through paper. It was my de atramentis ink and I will definitely get others in the future.

This ink is gorgeous!!!! I had it in a fine point pen and it worked real well. I tried it in an Ahab yesterday and realized that it's too wet for that pen. The color is highly pigmented and it does have a nice aroma too!

The smell isn't that noticeable but it is pretty, not my forte in colors though.

A nice brownish purple. Flow from a fountain pen might be a bit slower than a dip. Shades nicely though.

Flows well, not too dark...good for everyday use.similar to Montblanc Burgundy..with a bonus of good water resistance

Doesn't particularly smell like elderberries (what do those smell like?) but it makes my stinky Ahab smell a little better. The color is beautiful! Quite Saturated, medium shading, dark (I use it at work without much trouble), looks really pretty when wet (the constituents are amazing!). If you need a dark purple, get it! It looks a little similar to Noodler's Red Black oddly. But with a more purple touch.Four stars because the bottle isn't too nice (the ink reservoir is off center, typo on label), there wasn't a box to protect it from sunlight. Although the bottle is pretty unique, its like a car wheel without the tire almost! But all in all, buy it for the ink, not the scent or presentation!

I just love this color. It is deep and vibrant with no shadowing that I note. Water resistance isn't very good, but I knew that up front. It is a joy to write with. I don't detect any scent though.

This ink is a fantastic shade of purple, deep and intense. The scent of elderberry is only obvious to me when I smell the bottle. But that's ok. It's simply great ink.

I love the color of this ink - a dark berry that can look more brown on some papers. Really lovely, and exactly what I had hoped 'other' colors would be but weren't. Haven't had a pen not loaded with this since receiving it.

I wasn't sure that I would really like this color but I love it! Even in my moleskine notebook (which we all know drains the life out of every color) it still has this wine stain type of shading to it that just looks beautiful. The scent is nice too, not overpowering at all, very subtle. Buy it, you won't be disappointed!