This color caught my eye online and I decided to try a sample. It is absolutely beautiful!! The color is a rich brown with some red and subtle purple tones to it. It looks much browner next to Diamine Writer’s Blood which has a lot more purple in it. It looks fantastic in every nib size and flows well. It has a vibrance to it even though it is a deep color. It really stands out on the page! I’m so glad I decided to get a sample of this one. Full size bottle is on my wish list now!

Wonderful flow. I have this in a Pilot Metropolitan with a medium nib. I wish I had parchment paper to really set the tone of what this ink can do.

I bought this ink because the swab on line looks kinda purpleish but it is more of a brown hue. I absolutely love the color. I like the way the ink flows and how regal it looks on bond paper. I love the dry time. It got on my fingers when I was inking my pen and it was no trouble to get off my fingers at all.

I've had this sample for a while and forgot about it ... lo and behold, I used it in a tester Preppy today and its fascinating, antique-authentic brown-purple matches my new Lamy Logo pen's unusual 'Twilight' color ... perfectly! (see the review of the full bottle that discusses what 'black' ink the real JSBach used for the historical background on this ink)The swatch displayed doesn't do this ink justice, it is far too burgundy-black in appearance but then I'm not sure any scanned image could possibly represent the intriguing combination of colors that comprises 'JSBach.'I adore the De Atramentis inks I've tried thus far: they've been as well-behaved as Diamine inks, as intriguingly formulated as a fine painter's palette of color, and come from the hands of an individual artisan ... one cannot ask for more from a production ink!Oh, De Atramentis - your 'Aubergine' fascinated me and your 'JSBach' has me utterly captivated!

It is hard to say what color this ink really is. The photos online suggests it is a purple color, but when I put it into my fine nib Al-star it looks more like brown. However, it looks closer to purple with broad nib. It is really an interesting color, you must try to see just how amazing it is.

I absolutely adore this ink! It's a nice burgundy-brown and looks fantastic in my little knock-off journal :) There's minimal feathering and it flows out of my Metro smoothly! I love it to pieces, I really do! I think I'm going to need about a million more bottles of this for class!

This is a really nice brown ink with purplish tones. It's very classy and looks great on cream-colored paper. Like all of the De Atramentis inks I have tried so far, this shades nicely.

The De Atramentis line of ink is very appealing and it is my intention to buy several bottles in future.

Used this ink with pointed pen. Loved the slight variation in color as it dried. Looks vintage. Doesn't bleed.

I love the colour on this ink, but it was a little too oily and slow-drying for me to be very comfortable using it in a prolonged way. If you have the patience to wait for dry times, and you're good at keeping your hand out of your own written lines, then go for it. Otherwise, I suggest take a pass on this one.

I love every De Atramentis color I've ever tried, but this one is high up on my list of favorites. A deep burgandy-purple, I expect this to be one of my frequently used inks.