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I tend to find brown ink supremely boring. Even when I find one I like (Noodler's Golden Brown is an old love that I no longer visit), two sentences into a new piston-ful, I find I would always prefer to be using a gorgeous blue, red, purple or orange. Until I bought a SG 2005 bottle.

http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af97/Saskia_Madding/Ink%20reviews/Montblanc/DSC08568.jpg

The ink behaves perfectly - no shadowing, no bleed through, no feathering at all - and the shading is delicious!

http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af97/Saskia_Madding/Ink%20reviews/Montblanc/DSC08573.jpg


The best thing is that is smells yummy. It ostensibly smells like cookies and spice, though I cannot imagine what the difference would be between this and the cinnamon scented one.

Rhodia dotPad sample:http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af97/Saskia_Madding/Ink%20reviews/Montblanc/DSC08569.jpg

I immediately bought another four bottles. Now if only I could find more White Forest SG 2009!

 

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I love all the MB Season's Greetings inks. Already looking forward to 2011's. Thanks for showing the luscious shading so well.

With the new FPN rules, now I REALLY don't know what to put in my signature.

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I think Mont Blanc still has some left. Call them and see. :) I know there was still some at the store in my city, as well as SG 2007 (until I came along!), and SG 2006 (which I didn't buy any of).

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I love the color and shading, but this ink tends to clog my pens if not cleaned out within a week.

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Huh. Odd. I've had it longer than a week in my Pilot Custom 823 on several occasions and never had a problem. Perhaps the bottle you had has evaporated down a bit and become thicker?

 

Same in my experience--as long as a month with no problems.

 

Some pens have poor seals and lead to higher evaporation and drying.

With the new FPN rules, now I REALLY don't know what to put in my signature.

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I must say that I do like this ink. As re saturation and maintenace it parallels the qualities of most other MB inks. The colour itself is very subtle. Not too black, not too light, not too bricky, not to yellow or bland, but still with a touch of red and gold

I find the smell too intense... but... it is soon gone.

 

Mike

Life is too short to drink bad wine (Goethe)

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I haven't checked the hours exactly, but by the next day there is only a hint of a smell, and the day after that the smell is completely gone.

 

There is a sample of Clairefontaine, Rhodia dotPad in the review. But the main page's paper is unknown. the book is a black covered sketch book that I picked up at a local art store. The paper is moderately thick and quite absorbent.

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