Caran D'ache Electric Orange

[lgsoltek]

Thank you Visvamitra for sending me this sample.

 

I've never tried any CdA ink before. If all their inks are like this one, then no thank you very much.

 

Electric Orange is a terribly dry, "blade-y" (lack of lubrication) pale and flat orange. It's just terrible. And at that price? Is it a joke?

 

Splash

(Only at this level of wetness does this ink look decent.)

Sample

 

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(KWZI Aztec Gold, Lucky Orange, Caran d'Ache Electric Orange)

(KWZI Grey Plum, CdA Electric Orange, Lucky Orange, Blackstone Golden Wattle, Toucan Scarlet)

[Cyber6]

I am so happy for this review... cause NO WAY I am paying those prices..... for "that"...

 

 

Thanks LG !!!

 

 

 

C.

[amberleadavis]

I really like the bottle. Does that count?

[julia239]

This makes me sad. Electric Orange is one of my favorites. I love the color & it performs so well in my EF Vanishing Point; it's one of the few inks that I don't get any feedback with in that pen. Mine also seems more saturated, but you did get some shading that I don't usually get. The CdA inks are quite expensive. Electric Orange is the only one I've bought a bottle of; I was on the fence about Delicate Green, but then I discovered Robert Oster Green-Lime.

[lgsoltek]

This makes me sad. Electric Orange is one of my favorites. I love the color & it performs so well in my EF Vanishing Point; it's one of the few inks that I don't get any feedback with in that pen. Mine also seems more saturated, but you did get some shading that I don't usually get. The CdA inks are quite expensive. Electric Orange is the only one I've bought a bottle of; I was on the fence about Delicate Green, but then I discovered Robert Oster Green-Lime.

 

I'm sorry that we have different experience with this ink. Next time I'll try it in a wetter pen.

[Chrissy]

I bought one on Amazon.co.uk when it suddenly turned into a really cheap price. Otherwise, I might not have bothered.

[julia239]

I'm sorry that we have different experience with this ink. Next time I'll try it in a wetter pen.[/quote

 

I just wish it had performed better and you'd had a better experience with it.

[scratchofapen]

Buh, i wish i had noticed this earlier....i can only agree with the OP, the electric orange is pale even in the wettest nibs, unsaturated even in a swab once it is dry, dry times are a joke and on medium quality paper and below the ink shows every bad behavior you can imagine.

 

At least the glass is pretty and can be reused.

 

I tried infrared and idyllic blue too- more cautious from samples- they are evenly pale regardless how wet the nib is...i wonder if the formula was changed somewhen, because there are reviews on the web that state bright colours in CdA inks...

Edited August 19, 2019 by scratchofapen