Diamine Dark Forest

[visvamitra]

It seems Diamine enjoys celebrating its anniversary. This year they added another eight inks to their line of 150th anniversary inks.

 

The inks are sold in nice and quitye comfortable in use triangular bottles.

 

 

 

Dark Forest is an interesting ink. While I'm not sure if I enjoy this particular hue, it's deffinitely not your usual green or blue/green. The ink has good properties although if you seek for a water resistant writing fluif, it's not the one. Look elsewhere. The flow is good in both fine abd broad nibs. Level of lubrication and saturation is satisfying.

 

 

On some paper (Tomoe River) sheen is visible.

 

Drops of ink on kitchen towel

Software ID

Color ID

Oxford Opic, Wing Sung 698, fine nib

Oxford Opic, Lamy Al-Star, broad nib

Midori, Lamy Al-Star, broad nib

Mini - comparison

Water resistance

[MsRedpen]

Thanks for the review - it is very accurate to what I see using a wet M - and I like it a lot!!

... this bluesih hint...

[Barkingpig]

Thank you for your always honest & thorough review. The inks resemblance to Lamy Petrol is uncanny & should serve as a suitable replacement for anyone who was not able to purchase a bottle. It is not a shade I would want multiple variations of, blue greens are not might first thought, when choosing ink to fill my pen.

[chromantic]

Thanks for this review, vis. It did remind me of Petrol in the Oxford samples, though more on the green side. What sort of show/bleed did you encounter?

[Bergerac]

A very nice review.

Could you please tell if you how long you had to wait before the ink dried?

 

Many thanks.

[visvamitra]

I've done a try with Wing SUng and after 2 minutes it started without problems. I didn't try longer times.

[amberleadavis]

This seems like the sort of color you could pass off as serious (which is great), so the lack of any water resistance is disheartening.

[Newjelan]

Thanks for the review visvamitra. I like this, lucky for me it's similar to Lamy Petrol and I don't need to buy it.

[grasshopper]

Thanks for a great review!

Now I have 2 interesting inks to look out for... Dark Forest and Lamy Petrol....

[chromantic]

Well, vis, thanks to you I'm out another $16. Not that I'm complaining - the majority of my ink purchases have been due to your (and sakia_mannings') reviews and you've rarely steered me wrong, so thanks.

 

This seems like a slightly lighter, and thus more obviously green, Miru-ai. I held off for several days but, in the end, just couldn't resist ordering a bottle.

[swanjun]

I wonder how this compares to Montblanc White Forest...

[chromantic]

I'm once again indebted to you, vis. Been using it for several days now and it's really nice. Diamine's done a good job with this one.

[IndigoBOB]

This is a Gateway-Green. I'm don't typically have a preference for green, but this one is breaking down those barriers : P