Egoistar - Silence Of The Old Leaves / September Leaves

[visvamitra]

Egoistar is korean producer of inks. I know little about the company. They oofer good variety of fountain pen friendly inks. Sadly, it seems that ordering these inks is quite difficult due to Korea customs urestricting shipemnt of liquids.

Fellow pen enthusiats from Poland managed to procure four bottles through family and shared samples witjh me. Didi - thanks a lot! It was fun to test these inks. Also, I have to say I really enjoyed these inks. As samples were small and I used them in very wet pens (my flock of Kawecos with broad and double broad nibs), I won't be able to claim that the inks are problem-free in long term use. In short-term writing, though, I was impressed.

Silence of the Old Leaves / September Leaves has great color and excellent flow and feels wet, the way J. Herbin inks feel. Drying times are satisfying (5 seconds or less on absorbent papers, 10-15 seconds on Rhodia when the ink is used in very wet nib. I like this one a lot.

Drops of ink on kitchen towel

Color ID

Color range

Fabriano, Kaweco Sport, B

No - name copy paper, Kaweco Sport, B

Oxford, Kaweco Sport, BB - reversed nib writing vs regular writing

Rhodia, Kaweco Sport, BB

Rhodia, Hero 5028, stub 1.9

​Midori, Hero 5028, stub 1.9

Water resistance

[cellardoor04]

Ohh I wish I never saw this. This is exactly the type of murky green I love! Of course it's near impossible to get Thanks for the brilliant review as always!

[lgsoltek]

Claudia!

[Jan2016]

Thank you for the review...

so still another bottle of ink to buy....

 

Still looking for relatives in Korea...

[visvamitra]

@nyx_h - yes, it's right up my alley as well. Sadly, for instance I see no chance of getting a bottle. Or two.

@jan2016 - me too bro.

[Jan2016]

tried eBay, Ali express and some Korean sites, but the Korean sites do not ship internationally... And I am not aware of services like US Unlocked or OPAS

[mallymal1]

Shame about the availability. I would certainly give this a try.

 

Thank you for showing us this ink, Vis. Could you compare it to anything else you have used?

[Cyber6]

Claudia!

 

Yes.. is nice, but I can think of at least 5 murky greens similar to this.. (from Sailor, KWZ , Stipula, Noodlers.. etc..)

 

[jmccarty3]

My daughter-in-law just happens to have a sister in Korea right now . . . hmmmmmm.

[Aquaria]

Normally, I'm a fan of muted colors, but this one is far too reminiscent of my canned pickle uniform during USAF basic training. It's bad enough that I had to spend nearly all of six weeks wearing a color that made me look like I had end stage liver disease, without having the reminder of it when I'm doing something that makes me happy like writing with one of my pens.

 

 

I'll never have anything to do with that color again as long as I live.