Jinchen FenFang / Fragrance — Ink Review #241
Jinchen Fragrance (FenFang) Ink Review # 241 Originally posted on FPN: Apr 23, 2026 --- 🧾 Description Ink: FenFang (Fragrance) Brand: Jinchen Country: China Bottle size: 18 ml Pens Used: Pilot Elite EF, Lamy (EF/F/M/B/ stub 1.1), Hongdian Forest Blade nib, Ahab with a FPR flex nib. Available: 18 ml bottles from AliExpress. I don’t know how to describe this colour. The base, depending on the paper, nib, and wetness, is a bright to muted plum or rosewood, with a hint of brown. It is a well-behaved ink on copy paper, though only with firehose flex nibs will it have undesirable woolly lines and bleed-through (on Rhodia and Iroful too). However, on Japanese paper it shows its true colours: a brilliant apple-green sheen. When rinsing the pen, both green and purple tones were visible in the water, suggesting multiple dyes, even if the chromatography does not clearly separate them...