Lamy Petrol (Le 2017)

[white_lotus]

I got a bottle of this ink at list price when it first came out as I missed the Lamy Dark Lilac. Then some people decided to succumb to greedy desires to buy up as much of the supply as they could and resell it on ebay. I am not one of those people. A friend in Japan really wanted a bottle and so we traded.

 

This is quite a blue-leaning green. It seems quite close to Sailor Miruai, a readily available ink. KWZ Foggy Green is also similar but less leaning towards blue. There are probably other inks in other brands that are similar to this ink.

 

My original pics made the ink look almost black and these are better, but I don't think the ink is still this dark. It handled perfectly well with no bleed through or show through. Some sheen on Tomoe River paper, and some nice shading which the images mostly don't show. This was a perfectly reasonable ink to buy for $10.50. I'll probably sit out the next frenzy over whatever ink Lamy announces as it's LE for 2018.

 

The ink definitely bleeds through to the verso on the droplet test. Somewhat resistant to poured water. But remember this is not labeled as water resistant ink.

 

Pen: Aurora Ipsilon Deluxe (M-14kt)

Papers: MvL=Mohawk via Linen, TR=Tomoe River, Rhodia=Rhodia 90g ivory.

Camera: iPhone 7 using Camera+ app

[visvamitra]

I kind of like it, although it's nowhere near Dark Lilac.

[Jan2016]

Petrol is in the air...

[chromantic]

Great review of a lovely ink, lotus. The pictures are especially nice at conveying the color. Miruai is pretty close but the sheen is a bit more subdued; the sheen on Petrol is shinier.

 

I kind of like it, although it's nowhere near Dark Lilac.

 

Opposite here, as bowled over by Petrol as I was disappointed with Lilac; it was vis' review, in fact, that spurred me to try it.

[white_lotus]

Thanks! And thanks for the comparison with Miruai, that is very useful.

[lapis]

NIce review of an interesting ink (although it is in fact from Lamy). What I like "best" about it is that it is practically a "black" with some pens on some papers, although a bit of the green can be squeezed out by fooling around with such combos (of pen and paper)....