Welcome back to the Miss Marilyn Darling Show—today I’m reviewing D’Atramentis Red Roses, which is technically labeled as a “red,” but I’m here to tell you right now: this one lives in the pink department. I also did my monthly paper setup on stream (yes, it took forever, yes, my math abandoned me, and yes, I threatened to beat someone with a stick if they noticed my wonky lines). But once we got organized, we got into the good stuff: bottle details, scent check, swatching, water resistance, and chromatography. Red Roses is a scented ink (fragrance: roses), and when you open the bottle it genuinely smells like red roses—very distinct and very pleasant. On paper, the scent doesn’t really hang around, and I can’t smell it in the pen, but it’s definitely there. It’s a very potent, bold-looking ink with basically no shading, and it has a little bit of water resistance—though it’s light enough that I personally wouldn’t trust it on the outside of an envelope. I ran it across a whole stack of papers (from Tomoe River to CVS filler paper to a Dollar Tree Jot envelope), and the results were all over the place: gorgeous on 68gsm Tomoe River, a feathery disaster on the Jot envelope. Then I compared it to a range of pinks and reds, and yep—this “red” is absolutely a pink. Let me know in the comments if you’ve tried it and where you’d categorize it.