{"id":870,"date":"2014-04-07T07:57:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T06:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepencompany.live\/blog\/?p=870"},"modified":"2016-09-27T16:39:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T15:39:21","slug":"sailor-jentle-apricot-grenade-inks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepencompany.live\/blog\/ink\/sailor-jentle-apricot-grenade-inks\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailor Jentle Apricot and Grenade inks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepencompany.live\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sailor-Jentle-Grenade-and-Apricot-ink-reviews.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-874\" alt=\"Sailor Jentle Grenade and Apricot ink reviews\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thepencompany.live\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sailor-Jentle-Grenade-and-Apricot-ink-reviews.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thepencompany.live\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sailor-Jentle-Grenade-and-Apricot-ink-reviews.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.thepencompany.live\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sailor-Jentle-Grenade-and-Apricot-ink-reviews-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thepencompany.live\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sailor-Jentle-Grenade-and-Apricot-ink-reviews-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These are two beautiful inks from Sailor. They both behave well, show some shading and have decent dry times. The bottles are lovely and have a little ink reservoir to help you use up every last drop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepencompany.live\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sailor-Apricot-ink-reservoir.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-871\" alt=\"Sailor Apricot ink reservoir\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thepencompany.live\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sailor-Apricot-ink-reservoir.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thepencompany.live\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sailor-Apricot-ink-reservoir.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.thepencompany.live\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sailor-Apricot-ink-reservoir-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thepencompany.live\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sailor-Apricot-ink-reservoir-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Sailor Jentle Grenade<\/h2>\n<p>This is a rich dark plum colour. It reminds me of food, as most things do. In this case, it reminds me of a bottle of cassis, ready to be poured into ice cold wine to make a kir. Or an overripe plum.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepencompany.live\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sailor-Jentle-Grenade-ink-review.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-875\" alt=\"Sailor Jentle Grenade ink review\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thepencompany.live\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sailor-Jentle-Grenade-ink-review.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thepencompany.live\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sailor-Jentle-Grenade-ink-review.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.thepencompany.live\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sailor-Jentle-Grenade-ink-review-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thepencompany.live\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sailor-Jentle-Grenade-ink-review-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is some shading although not a huge amount as this is quite a saturated ink. Enough to give your writing some character. Dry times are reasonable \u2013 don&#8217;t read too much into the dry times in the review, the Noodler is like a firehose.<\/p>\n<h2>Sailor Jentle Apricot<\/h2>\n<p>Now talking of food, here is one that is actually named after a fruit. Imagine picking an apricot from the tree on a gloriously hot summer&#8217;s day. This is the colour of the flesh of that apricot. It is delicious.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepencompany.live\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sailor-Apricot-ink-review.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-872\" alt=\"Sailor Apricot ink review\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thepencompany.live\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sailor-Apricot-ink-review.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thepencompany.live\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sailor-Apricot-ink-review.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.thepencompany.live\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sailor-Apricot-ink-review-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thepencompany.live\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sailor-Apricot-ink-review-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This ink lifts my soul and makes me so very very happy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepencompany.live\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sailor-Jentle-Grenade-and-Apricot-ink-review-Inklings.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-873\" alt=\"Sailor Jentle Grenade and Apricot ink review Inklings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thepencompany.live\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sailor-Jentle-Grenade-and-Apricot-ink-review-Inklings.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thepencompany.live\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sailor-Jentle-Grenade-and-Apricot-ink-review-Inklings.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.thepencompany.live\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sailor-Jentle-Grenade-and-Apricot-ink-review-Inklings-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thepencompany.live\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sailor-Jentle-Grenade-and-Apricot-ink-review-Inklings-150x106.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t go wrong with these inks. The Apricot in particular has rapidly become one of my most favourite inks ever. They are happy joyful inks that make you want to pick up a pen and write and write and write and write&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sailor ink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thepencompany.live\/product\/sailor-jentle-bottled-ink\/\">Sailor ink<\/a> is in stock and available now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are two beautiful inks from Sailor. They both behave well, show some shading and have decent dry times. The bottles are lovely and have a little ink reservoir to help you use up every last drop. Sailor Jentle Grenade This is a rich dark plum colour. It reminds me of food, as most things&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[11],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.7.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sailor Jentle Apricot and Grenade inks by Ian Hedley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"ou can&#039;t go wrong with these inks. 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