Jacques Herbin Lie de The ink is my husband’s favorite. Jacques Herbin inks are always dependable!

Beautiful variety in shading! REALLY enjoyed this and need to get a full bottle ASAP!

I want a brown ink for letter writing. Due to holiday craziness I haven't had a chance to test drive the sample colors I ordered.I wan
Order was filled, shipped quickly, was as ordered. I'll get to them in 2026.

2nd J Herbin I have used and so far very impressed with their performance. This is akin to a sepia or old document ink. Beautiful shading. Not super dark, but this ink for sure has it's place.

This goes into my it's ink category. As in, it writes and gets the job done but nothing makes it stand out to me. It's brown and doesn't have any shade variations when writing, even with a gusher of a pen. So if you need just a plan Jane brown, I guess you found your ink but for me it didn't peak my interest.

This is a nice neutral brown, not reddish. In a fine-nibbed Pilot it comes out a bit lighter in shade than what is shown in the example on this page. It does have a dryer tendency, and it feathers a bit on poor paper. For those reasons it won't be the one I'll reach for regularly, but it has its place.

I was in search of something earth toned & the Lie d Th� was perfect. Unfortunately it is too dry an ink

Flow is nice, color is lovely on Midori MD paper using a TWSBI Eco EF nib fountain pen. Now I want to buy the 30-ml bottle.

Wet, medium brown with moderate shading that works well in flex nib pens. I like browns and compared to PR Chocolate, Noodler's ****** it's a nice ink if a little lighter by comparison.

I got this ink to try in my Pelican M200 Cafe Creme. I wanted something to match. The Chocolate Brown I had in it was a little too much. This color is lighter and has a gold tint to it with a hint of green.

I love this ink. It has a very old fashioned feel to it. It looks just like dried tea leaves. It goes perfectly with my 1930s Waterman ultra flex italic. It is a light colored ink with tons of shading. A new favorite.

sort of an odd color of brown but loaded my nouveau in cappuccino with it, helps me remember what color is in my pens if I color coordinate them.

I have a fondness for brown inks, and Lie de The (used tea leaves) is a wonderful shade of brown. Very elegant.

This is not only my favorite brown ink, it may just be my favorite ink of all time. Warm enough for correspondence and serious enough for the office, I use this beautifully shading ink all the time. A nice medium brown for any occasion!

This has a small tinge of redness, and a gold sheen when dry

I cannot make up my mind to use this for drawing, painting or writing. So I use it for everything!

J. Herbin makes amazing ink, and their colours quickly made their way onto my list of favourite inks. Vert Empire and Rouille D'ancre are beautiful, unique colours. J. Herbin's brown inks are some of the best shades out there, and I have a lot of brown inks in my collection! You can't go wrong with these inks, I just wish it didn't take me so long to try them.

I recently bought two bottles of J.Herbin from Mr. Goulet: Rouge Bourgogne and Lie de The. I really liked the rouge from the outset (in a Lamy Al-Star F nib). Not much shading--just a really deep purpley-red. I didn't like the Lie de The' as much at first (Mont Blanc Meisterstuck F nib). There's a lot of shading, but the lighter parts look sort of like, well, tea stains. However, I just put this ink into a Pelikan 205 F nib---which is a lot more flexible and puts out way more ink than the MB---and this ink looks really nice. The darker portions are a really rich, cocoa brown, and the lighter parts don't look nearly as washed out. Both inks flow very well and there haven't been any problems with clean up.

Really the color of the dregs of tea in a cup as it says in its French name. I like it. Great to be able to sample inks via Goulet Pen Co. before committing.

Caf� des �les is a red-brown, while Lie de Th� is, in my opinion, a pure brown. Some reviews elsewhere on the internet have said that Lie de Th� has an unattractive green tinge to it; I noticed a very slight hint of green or yellow only when the ink level in my pen got so low that it started writing dryly, and when I compared Lie de Th? side-by-side the reddish Caf� des �les. Like all of the J. Herbin inks I have tried, these two were well-behaved, with low saturation and fairly short drying times.

Sick shading on this one.

This is a yellow-toned sepia, which is a nice contrast to the more red varieties out there. It's an overall very good ink, but it will feather a little on cheap paper, and I personally wish it was more saturated. Still worth a try for anyone interested in a sepia ink.

This is a great color, a nice golden brown. I did find it slightly too yellow for my tastes, so I won't be buying a bottle unless it grows on me, but it flows and shades nicely, and I really enjoyed writing with it!

Won't purchase a bottle because it did not turn out to be my favorite shade of brown, but that's a reflection on my taste not this fine ink.

This is a very well-behaved ink. Fairly wet, slick feel, easy cleaning.

An exellent ink that shade and flow in a nice manner. Recommended if you are hunting for something different that still can be used for normal writing.

This is an ink that shades differently depending on the paper. But the dark tone goes well along with yellow-ish paper.

fantastic colour, and a really nice smooth ink, amazing flow, it's just great. Works really nicely in my TWSBI Micarta. I put the ink in and it worked perfectly right out of the box, love this colour!

This is such a lovely brown color without any predominant other shades. It looks kind of matte antique when dry and has some lovely shading. It's performing well in my TWSBI 540 stub.

Excellent shading and all around behavior. Lovely brown

Have been trying out brown samples this summer as well - interesting name on this one, so I tried it out - really cool color, with an antique feel, which makes it even nicer in my opinion - shades some from my Levenger Signature Stub and looks great on papers like the Rhodia dot grid paper. Just bought a bottle!

Lie de The was one of the first inks I learned about thru SBRE Brown's YouTube video reviews. Now there is seldom a time when I don't see a spent, wet tea bag and think of this ink. The exact same shade of brown. This ink is a bit on the dry side so I have to use it in wet pens. Very nice shading potential with more flexible nibs. Recommended!