I fell in love with the color when I saw it, however, I didn't realize how dry it and horrible this ink is!

When I tried it on a newly arrived PensBBS, my pen wouldn't even work. I tried spacing the tines, cleaning it, leaving the ink in over night - it really ruined my NPD experience and thought it was the pen! The manufacturer suggested a new ink brand and now my pen works wonderfully.

Additionally I tried it several other pens (opus 88, retro 51, Lamy, waterman, and a few more, along with all different sized nibs and it sucked on all of them) This ink color choice may probably best work with a dip pen. Sadly I hate this particular one from Noodlers. Other Noodlers colors have worked fine though.

This ink is perfect for my new cherry blossom twisbi

It's a pretty bright pink!

The WORST ink ever. Using Goulet pen flush to try to get this garbage out of a brand new Kaweco. I have been disappointed by Noodler's inks before, so I don't know why I thought this would be any different, but this one was my last mistake. Never again. If I could set this on fire for revenge, I would. Actually, I might try because it smells like it will burn! YUCK!

I was blinded by this ink when i first bought it. I quite loved the shade and, having used Skrip inks most of my life (though they have- cough, had - a fairly outrageous red), I was immediately smitten by the prospect that this, harbinger of modern ink-nology had to offer. Put highlighter ink in a fountain pen? Crazy.. I bought an eco specifically for this ink. It worked pretty well.. The "dryness" of this ink manifests as just a scratchiness in the nib. It actually behaves super wet : A lot of cheaper papers will just drink this ink up. That makes it really fast drying, but i notice "dots" and points where i stop the flow of my letters.. Adding some water (10-20% distilled) would smooth this out and increase the line width overall, but i stopped doing it because it exacerbates another of this ink's issues - bleeding.. Even on decent paper, this ink will bleed pretty crazily. Most bright pinks seem to have this characteristic, this one is just worse. Also, my bottle is maybe 6 years old and the dried ink sort of chunks up like rubber cement around the its lip. My wife left this ink unused for six months in an M-2 demonstrator and it was a devil of a time getting it clean. In short, i use other inks now.. I've found Diamine Hope Pink is a great sub for this shade, if not even slightly brighter. It has some of the same problems: it runs slightly dry, has some ghosting and it's consistency, unlike Rach, is rather syrupy. Actually, I think it would be harder to clean that ink out of a clear nib unit, though I've learned my lesson and don't leave pink inks undisturbed in pens long enough to find out. The two exceptions are Noodlers Cactus Fruit Eel, which is a truly splendid ink that not enough people talk about- I'll buy it as long as they keep making it (I've had that ink in my above-mentioned Eco for over a year and it doesn't even think on settling on the pen's walls) and Diamine Scarlet. Both inks are a joy to write with and easy to clean. Still, as an ink that first took me outside the "standard" colour palette, there will always be a place for this bottle on my shelf and in my heart. Just probably the same bottle.

I love this ink in my TWISBI ECO. It writes like a dream on both cheap and expensive paper without bleeding.

Wanted to love this ink. It was one of the first bottles I bought... and wow do I regret jumping in here. While the color is beautiful I cannot use it. The smell induces a headache. Definitely a regret purchase. (I do love other noodler's samples I've tried and will continue to purchase from the brand).

Great, deep color, water is not a problem, quite wet, just perfect!

I am so sad. This ink was part of a fairly large order I placed. Seeing the swatch, I fell in love. But this ink is thick, it smells like paint, and it clogged my Kaweco Frosted Sport in Sweet Banana. IM SO DISAPPOINTED. I was so looking forward to using this ink. I also have to replace my pen now.. sad face.

I could not get this ink to flow smoothly in the pen I bought to match (Diplomat Magnum), and TBH I didn't want to risk staining my other pens to try to get it to work. I flushed the ink cartridge over a dozen times and soaked it in Goulet's Pen Flush and it STILL hung on. The colour is EXQUISITE. I can't emphasize this enough -- it is the perfect embodiment of my aesthetic life goals, which makes it even more heartbreaking that it just won't flow. I tried it on several types of paper, and while it did flow a bit better on smoother paper, it still was not smooth or consistent flow and took significant concentration to get it to write. I capped it *immediately* after every use, and it just got worse over the 2-3 days that I left it in the pen. It smells like cheap latex paint whenever the pen is uncapped - reminds me of working in the paint department of an orange home improvement store and opening up the cheapest gallons we carried. Not what I want to smell when I uncap a fountain pen for a pleasurable writing experience!

I love love love the viivd shade of this ink. However, the ink's mesmerizing opacity also carries some goopy issues. It will stain your pen, and it leaves a little "milky" ring of residue...especially if you made the mistake I did in leaving it in your pen for more than a couple of weeks. If the ink sits in the pen, it clogs like crazy. And yet I still love this ink! I am still on a search to find the right pen to use so that I can continue to enjoy the amazing color.

I love the vibrant pink color and how it looks in my pen. The ink flows nicely and does not dry out fast.

The colour just pops. But like everyone else, I had no luck putting this through even my wettest pens. It's just too thick. But if you dilute it, the colour would not pop. I am still waiting on my glass dip pen so can't speak to the efficacy of dipping, but my guess is that is what will work for this ink. It's too pretty to sit on the shelf, so will just have to find a way to get it on paper.

The ink is beautiful and bright. I wish I didn't have so much trouble with it. I've tried it in 4 different pens and I get so much skipping unless I'm applying pressure to the nib and holding it at just the right angle. I don't have this trouble with other inks in those pens. I will continue to use it, maybe in a dip pen, but I probably wouldn't have purchased a whole bottle if I had thought to sample it first. Oh well, at least it's pretty and pops under a black light.

causing serious clogging issue on twsbi vac700 f nib. stunning colour though. this ink will be the best friend for brush or something. not for modern fountain pen. blocked ink flow. ink formula is not very much well designed.

As the title says, it is a great color for those looking for such a color, but the performance is terrible. It will not flow from any pen and nib combo as is.

It's a fantastic color. Very bright. Good for some in-text comment or highlighting. The downside is that if it stays for a few days not used it usually does not flow normally. Sometimes you'll have to prime the feed to get it going again.

Fabulous ink! Please do not discontinue! I am a newbie, and ordered this ink sample. This ink is devine! I watercolor in my Planner Perfect Traveler's Notebook inserts when I journal. Sometimes I like to watercolor paint over my written entries. Sometimes I like to write over my watercolor paints. This ink is wonderful for either! I am just crazy about the almost fuchsia pink color too. I highly recommend this ink.

Zippy's 3/14/16 Monday Matchup and Madigan's 3/17/16 ink review got me to thinking about this ink, so I read all of the reviews and looked at its properties. A couple of years ago I tried to use Dragon Catfish Orange for making margin notes and highly visible writing, but it was too hard to read, even after mixing Noodler's Fox in increasing amounts - I never got what I wanted. This ink is probably what I wanted. I recently got two samples and found Rachmaninoff to be very easy to read, highly visible, water resistant. I put it in a TWSBI Eco 1.1 and it flowed perfectly, beautifully, and is super smooth. I knew at once that I wanted to get a bottle of it, and it came today. Rachmaninoff bleeds through cheap paper, but behaves well on better papers. Super visible. The ink for making eye catching notes, headings, underlines, bullets, arrows, or doodles in your journal or letters. Great for art work. No problems with the flow at all, it flows flawlessly through my Eco 1.1 mm pen. Some reviewers say it is too thick and doesn't flow well. If it gets like that I'll dilute it with 10% or more distilled water, so easy to do. If this brilliant color appeals to you, you can make it work in any pen by simply diluting when needed. The ink looked exactly like the great Goulet photos when I used it. No shading, way too saturated for that. Almost like a paint for fountain pens. Dry time was very good on Clairefontaine paper. No saturation.

I recently purchased this based on a blog entry at goulet without reading the reviews. As of today, I've tried it on a Lamy Safari and Noodler's very own Neponsat. Both pens exhibited feed issues I would not have with other inks including J.Herbin's 1670 inks. I don't necessarily want to give up on the ink so I am going to try diluting it.Buyer beware.

I bought this for my wife, and while I am very pleased with the ink when I use it in one of my pens, she does not get her pen out every day and it clogs up very quickly. The ink is a very thick consistency, almost like paint (smells a bit like paint too) I am going to try cutting the ink with water to thin it down to see if performance improves. But if you are looking for this ink, be sure to write with it every day and wash/flush your pen promptly when you're done.

As mentioned by the other reviewers, this ink is bright and exciting. It was a little thick, but some of the problem may be attributed to the fact I was using it during winter when humidity is very low. Even so, it's worth it to tweak it a little.

The sample of Noodler's Rachmaninoff arrived today, opaque in the vial, and bright beautiful fuschia on the page. I used a dip pen for sampling on cheap copy paper and in my ink notebook, as I thought the heaviness of the pigments might clog my regular pens. The flow was smooth,almost lubricated, the color saturated, no bleed through on cheap paper, no feathering. The chemical scent in the vial was not unpleaseant. Another winner from Noodler's for spring time writing! And... It washed off the champagne colored carpet with ease leaving no stain! Oops.

The pinkest pink--very bright, saturated, vibrant. Looks stunning in my TWSBI vac700 clear demonstrator. I didn't have the flow problems reported by another reviewer--but I use this ink only briefly when I use it. I fill the pen with the ink, write a letter or a few notes, and then flush the pen out. It is a thick ink, and it takes quite a few flushes to clean out the pen afterwards. I don't know how it performs if left in a pen or allowed to dry a bit in the feed.

My absolute favorite ink. Very bright, intense, deep hot pink and when you shine UV on it it pops off the page. It has more red/magenta in it than a hot pink highlighter and it is not watery or pale on paper. Look out world, here comes my everyday ink!

Love it!!!!!!! Gouletpens thanks for the fast shipping!!!!

i am addicted to bright, obnoxious colors! love this one!

Looking for pink? You've found it- look no further. This has got to be the most neon pink ink I've ever seen. It looks fabulous in my transparent TWSB pen- very cool.