Caran D'ache Amazon Green Turned Blue?

[sodiumnitrate]

My friend had a bottle of caran d'ache amazon, which he gave to me while he was moving away. When I tried the ink, I noticed that it turned completely blue. I don't know if someone replaced the ink in this bottle but don't remember it. I'm wondering if anyone heard of this particular ink turn blue from green somehow. Oxidation, or heat or humidity -- somehow...

[lapis]

Never heard of that. My two bottles of it are still absolutely green. It must have been somebody fooling around with a replacement of anything else. Oxidation, heat, freezing, humidity -- all of those parameters won't change its colour in the least.

[Chrissy]

I haven't heard of Amazon Green turning blue, but I've heard of both of the blues significantly changing colour.

[sodiumnitrate]

Yeah, it looks like my friend might have mixed it up a little. It wasn't helpful that he didn't remember it and insisted he didn't do anything

[Patrick L]

I haven't heard of Amazon Green turning blue, but I've heard of both of the blues significantly changing colour.

Hi Chrissy,

Of what blues are you talking about ? In what way did they change color ?

Cheers

Patrick

[lapis]

Hi Patrick! Mike here (not Chrissy).

Of all of the blue CdAs which I have....

• old series = blue night, blue sky, caribbean sea
• new series = hypnotic turquoise, magnetic blue, idyllic blue

... there haven't yet been any significant changes in their colours noticeable over the years (all kept in their boxes and out of any direct lighting).

[Chrissy]

Hi Chrissy,

Of what blues are you talking about ? In what way did they change color ?

Cheers

Patrick

 

I've heard of Blue Night and Blue Sky changing colour. Also Storm changes colour when it gets old too

[lgsoltek]

I've heard of Blue Night changing colour too. See Visvamitra's review: https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/289586-caran-dache-colors-of-the-earth-rip/

[lapis]

My CDA oldies (all bought in 2008) have all retained the same colour till today, including their storm, too, which I hadn't forgotten, although it's more off from a "blue" than the "caribbean sea" is. The only thing I never did understand is that blue night and blue sky were/are so similar in colour. I mean, they could have differentiated the actual colour representations of these earth things a bit more. Oh well, the main thing is that they're no longer being manufactured. I really like them -- and still do --, though.

[yawningreyhound]

My caribbean sea just turned green. The sample and original bottle both stored in cabinets/boxes. One day I dipped into the sample to compare it to another ink because I'm always searching for that color match and voila! the dip pen wrote in green. I blamed everything but the ink, all the way to blaming myself for putting amazon in the sample bottle. Then I got the original glass bottle out and it had turned green, also.

 

I was very sad! This was just recently.

 

I'm afraid to check the other colors of the earth for change.