Has anyone made a comparison of:

- Noodler's Ottoman Rose
- PR Arabian Rose
- Diamine Crimson

I can't quite make my mind up which to go for...

Please check Rosemy article on the recent PR inks including Arabian Rose for more infos on this ink.

To me Arabian Rose is a dusty lighter medium burgundy color with aubergine tones.

Diamine Crimson and Claret are both bright and intese magenta-pink inks; both are very similar. The Claret is slightly more towards a red-magenta while the Crimson is slightly more towards a purple-magenta.

Both Diamine inks are completly different from the PR Arabian Rose.

I haven't tried the Noodlers yet...


What kind of "rose" color were you looking for?



Cheers

Michael

I can do a side by side sample of the Crimson and Ottoman Rose. Will try to get that done over the weekend.

I guess what I'm really looking for is a colour that best matches someone's bottle of genuine Sheaffer Persian Rose - rather than an attempt to guess what it might have looked like. I'd like something where a person can say: "I have personally tried a bottle of the real thing, and this is by far the closest match..." (Even though I know that there are lots of different variations.)

That aside, I like the swatch of Diamine Crimson on the website at The Writing Desk, but I know from experience that these broad-brush samples are not good matches for what it looks like when it comes out of an ordinary fountain pen nib. Someone posted a review of Crimson in the reviews section on here, but it looked suspiciously fluorescent, so I think it didn't scan well.

I posted that review and it really is very bright! I really didn't expect it to be like that when I ordered it.

Well, being the indecisive type (I'm a Libran... ) I decided to take the plunge and ordered all four -- Ottoman Rose, Arabian Rose, Crimson, and YOL Claret. (I've heard rumours that YOL and Diamine Claret are actually one and the same, but decided to go for YOL.)

The Crimson on the second of your two review scans looks very close to one of the Persian Rose samples that was published in Stylophiles - and also to a Chilean Persian Rose ink that I saw advertised on ebay a year or so ago. So, I'm especially hopeful of that one.

The problem with replicating Persian Rose, as I understand it, is that no one knows what it really looked like; the few extant samples of it vary widely in color. Some are carmine, like Noodler's Shah's Rose, and others lean towards burgundy, like Ottoman Rose -- which is why Noodler's has two PR emulations. The haze of uncertainty fuels the PR mystique, which now, IMO, can do with a bit of debunking. There are some great rose-colored inks out there; find one you like, and go with it.