Originating in 1887 on the opposite side of the Louvre River, Shenelil was a supplier of oil paints for famous painters such as Picasso, Cézanne, and Gauguin at the end of the 19th century. Cézanne once used Shenelil's watercolors to create a group of works, which are said to have been handed down to more than 20 paintings, leaving Shenelil with a lot of publicity capital.
 
Shenelil pigments are known for adding far more honey than any other brand, and in 2012, on the occasion of the brand's 125th anniversary, it even added honey to all 98 watercolors of the artist grade. Honey is a natural preservative, brightener and moisturizer that gives pigments a soft sheen, and Shenelil's artist-quality watercolors are bright and transparent, only slightly less transparent than Windsor Newton. But the extremely high content of honey also makes Shenellir the slowest drying watercolor on the market.
 
Aside from the highlights of the honey, because of the fine grinding, the diffusion performance of Shenelil's watercolor is also good, but the color performance can only be considered unsatisfactory. Its artist-grade I'aquarelle series of watercolors has a monochrome pigment ratio of less than 50%, and the color mix is easy to get dirty. Among the 98 colors, there are 16 colors that are not light-resistant at all, and in addition to the orange, red, and purple colors, which have always been poor in durability, they are also distributed in the blue-green system.
 
Now owned by the French brush brand Raphael, Shenelier does not have a strong consortium backing, and many of the review videos are recorded by the art director Yves-Marie Salanson, maintaining close contact with users. The direct customer increases the operating cost of Shennelier, and the price of 10ml watercolor ranges from 60-100 yuan, which is cost-effective. Shennellier has a large number of sets to provide, including all colors of 100 tubes of 10ml watercolor wooden box set, although a bit redundant from a practical point of view, but very popular with the collection control, selling for about 6000 yuan.
 
La Petite is a collegiate watercolor of Shennellil, all made of mixed colors, moistened with glycerin, without the characteristic honey of Shenelil, it is not worth recommending. The La Petite collection was not recognized as a subsidiary of Shenellil before, but Shenellir has not been doing well in recent years, and the La Petite collection has appeared prominently on the official website under the introduction of the I'aquarelle collection, and is affectionately called the "younger sister" of the I'aquarelle collection.