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Wanted to upload my review of the De Atramentis Blackberry. I wanted to get a review posted because the ones that I have found online did not manage to capture the color of the ink quite right. The review did scan "color correct" and in looking at this on a color calibrated monitor (I do a bit of photo work, and calibration is critical) I can say that the color here is true to what is on the paper. Feel free to ask any questions. This is my first posted review, so hints/tips/suggestions/criticism would all be welcome.

 

13924410592_3903c0ae13_h.jpgDeAtramentis Blackberry on Flickr

 

EDIT : The scan being clipped at the bottom is my fault. Between not having enough coffee, and being up a late at a dinner last night, my alignment was "just a bit outside."

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Thanks for the nice review. Also, one of my favourites, at least as re De Atramentis. Comparable -- spectrumwise, so to say -- to their Aubergine. But this one (the blackberry) still smells just like the real McCoy even after 5-6 years.

 

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Thank you! Great review.

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Stormin, now that I'm looking back on my blackberry, I still like it. What do you think now that you've had it for a while?

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I own a bottle of this. I like the color, but I was disappointed that it smells nothing like the blackberries that grew around my house back in Pennsylvania. The color is closer to their juice after it oxidizes.

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Just to defend that stuff, I resmelled it a minute ago and it (mine) still smells like fresh blackberry juice. As a matter of fact there are even a few growing outside right now. Maybe we just have different lots. I doubt that these inks are no longer made to smell like the real thing.

 

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