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De Atramentis Alchemist (Night Black)

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This is my first ink review. I hope I did this right. I forgot to upload a picture of the bottle. Will do that later as I don't seem to have the picture with me now.

 

Some of my co-workers have identified the scent of the ink. It is patchouli. I had no idea what this was. It is only in the ink itself, the scent does not seem to last once the ink is dry on the paper. (I copied this here so it would be with the review itself).

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Did your cat get a spot on it's nose? That's an interesting Black, thanks for sharing it with us. I like that you showed results from 3 different nibs. What does it smell like?

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From the scan it looks as black or blacker then any of the others you compared it to. Is that how it looks in person?

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No, it was after the cat had sniffed it that I noticed that there was dried ink on the outside of the bottle.

 

As for the smell, I can't really say for sure what it smells like. I've never quite smelled anything like it. I just asked one of my co-workers and she thinks it is familiar too but can't place it.

 

I think that the PR Invincible Black and the R&K Leipziger Schwarz are definitely blacker than this ink and perhaps the scan doesn't show that well. This ink is darker than the DeAtramentis Black Roses (IMHO). The broad nib of my 149 probably overwhelmed that page with black. What I want to do (eventually) is gather all of my black inks (and samples) together and do a page (or whatever is needed) of q-tip swabs for each black ink.

 

Some of my co-workers have identified the scent of the ink. It is patchouli. I had no idea what this was. It is only in the ink itself, the scent does not seem to last once the ink is dry on the paper.

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I waited too long to buy a bottle of this, and now it's no longer available... :-( I smelled more "lab chemicals" than "patchouli", yet I wanted it anyways, because it just smelled like the sorts of horrid preservatives and ingredients you'd find in Snape's office in the dungeons...

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Wanted: De Atramentis Magic Alchemist (also Magic Boarding School or Wizard)

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