Ink Review: Diamine November Rain Germany Exclusive

[Chrissy]

Today I'm reviewing Diamine November Rain ink.

Diamine November Rain is a Diamine Exclusive ink made specially for sale in Germany. I’ve seen it for sale on Fountainfeder, Papier & Stift and Seitz-Kreuznach websites as well as on Amazon.
It comes in 30ml bottles and 80ml bottles. I only have a sample bottle, so I can’t post a picture of the 80ml glass bottle and box.

This is a saturated dark green ink with red sheen. It doesn’t have quite as much sheen as the Organics Studio high sheen inks, but has more sheen than what you would call a “standard” ink. In my opinion, Diamine don’t have a current similar standard ink that is is very similar to November Rain, although Dark Forest is probably the closest. November Rain a blue leaning green. More green than Lamy Petrol and Organics Studio Henry D Thoreau Walden Pond. I would describe it as similar to a dark conifer green forest.

The fact that it’s a saturated ink that has good sheen, without having too much sheen, comes with a few benefits:
It’s a very nice green colour, whether you can always see the red sheen or not.
It easily washes off of my hands with cold water and bar soap (definitely not like Organics Studio Nitrogen, Ralph Emerson, or Henry Thoreau) and it easily flushes out of my converters and pens just using water.
It didn’t suffer from any hard starts or non-starts when I put the uncapped pen down to do swab tests, dry times and water resistance. I like that about these inks.
It dried quite quickly on most reasonably absorbent papers and once dry it didn’t smudge or smear. I tested for this by rubbing repeatedly across my writing. I saw no green or red on my fingers, and no smudging on the page.
I really enjoyed writing with it.

With these high sheen inks showthrough and bleedthrough can be a problem. There was showthrough on several of the papers I wrote on, although I could still have written on the reverse of all them with no problem.

The red sheen is usually more visible when using pens with wet flow and broader nibs.

• Flow Rate: Very good.
• Lubrication: Very good.
• Nib Dry-out: Not noticed.
• Start-up: Immediate.
• Saturation: Highly saturated ink.
• Shading Potential: Some shading with finer nibs or dry writing pens.
• Sheen: Good red sheen
• Show-Through:
  
  • Oxford 80gsm lined pad.
  • Tomoe River 52gsm - Slight.
  • Rhodia Bloc.
  • Whitelines.
• Spread / Feathering / Woolly Line: Seen on a couple of papers with my wet B nib.
• Nib Creep / “Crud”: Not seen.
• Staining (pen): Not seen after several days in the pen - easy clean-up with water.
• Staining (hands): Easy clean-up with bar soap.
• Clogging: Not seen. Seems unlikely.
• Water resistance: Not sold as waterproof but has some water resistance.
• Availability: Exclusive to Germany and available from: Fountainfeder, Papier & Stift,
  Seitz-Kreuznach and Amazon at varying prices.
  I found Fountainfeder offers the lowest price including shipping, especially when you buy two 80ml bottles.

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[azkid]

Another great review! This looks like an interesting color. I would like to add a dark green or blue-ish green ... But maybe not one with limited availability like this or Petrol (which I also like).

Does it come in the small 30ml bottles? Being Diamine maybe I can get some for a modest sum?

[Chrissy]

Another great review! This looks like an interesting color. I would like to add a dark green or blue-ish green ... But maybe not one with limited availability like this or Petrol (which I also like).

Does it come in the small 30ml bottles? Being Diamine maybe I can get some for a modest sum?

You're welcome. It comes in 30ml and 80ml bottles and I bet it's much cheaper to mail the 30ml plastic bottles. Although Fountainfeder mails two 80ml glass bottles for only 4 Euros I believe.

Petrol is quite similar to Diamine Dark Forest.

[calamus]

After Skull and Roses and Guns and Roses, I wonder if there's a pattern beginning to emerge?
BTW, I really like this color.

[Chrissy]

After Skull and Roses and Guns and Roses, I wonder if there's a pattern beginning to emerge?
BTW, I really like this color.

If there is, I'm not sure what pattern will emerge. The next one is called Calligraphy Passion. It's not a calligraphy ink, and it's not red as one might think an ink called "passion" might be, but a bright neon green.

November Rain is certainly a really nice colour.

[azkid]

I was hoping the next ink would be Skulls and Guns but what can you do?

Thanks for the Petrol alternative tip! Good to hear the above comes in 30ml! It is within reach, perhaps...

[Chrissy]

I was hoping the next ink would be Skulls and Guns but what can you do?

Thanks for the Petrol alternative tip! Good to hear the above comes in 30ml! It is within reach, perhaps...

I'm happy to wait and see.
You only live once.

[calamus]

I always want to spell color colour on this forum (I lived in England for a year and I've visited Canada a number of times — my first kiss, at the age of five, was in Ontario), but I always feel that I'd come across like a poser, being a Yank.

[Egatdagi]

I always want to spell color colour on this forum (I lived in England for a year and I've visited Canada a number of times — my first kiss, at the age of five, was in Ontario), but I always feel that I'd come across like a poser, being a Yank.

You wouldn’t come across as a poser. The forum is in “English” after all. Would intentionally misspell words if you were on a French language forum?


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[Egatdagi]

Oops that was kind of “trolly” for a new user. Sorry.


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[Chrissy]

I always want to spell color colour on this forum (I lived in England for a year and I've visited Canada a number of times — my first kiss, at the age of five, was in Ontario), but I always feel that I'd come across like a poser, being a Yank.

My spellchecker corrects it when I try to spell it without the "u". However, the paper I use is spelled as color. (On my screen it now has a dotted red line underneath.)

[azkid]

I was hoping the next ink would be Skulls and Guns but what can you do?

Thanks for the Petrol alternative tip! Good to hear the above comes in 30ml! It is within reach, perhaps...

I'm happy to wait and see.
You only live once.

I will check it out.

Speaking of Petrol, I now have a large spot of Petrol ink on the cargo pocket of my shorts. I guess I didn't cap the pen properly. Drat.

Ok, off to seek the ink...

[azkid]

Fountainfeder's shipping cost was quite low. So I will soon have a bottle of Nov Rain and the wonderful J. Herbin Rouge Grenat I've been sampling.

[Chrissy]

I was hoping the next ink would be Skulls and Guns but what can you do?

Thanks for the Petrol alternative tip! Good to hear the above comes in 30ml! It is within reach, perhaps...

I'm happy to wait and see.
You only live once.

I will check it out.

Speaking of Petrol, I now have a large spot of Petrol ink on the cargo pocket of my shorts. I guess I didn't cap the pen properly. Drat.

Ok, off to seek the ink...

I hope a Lamy Petrol stain will come out. Do you have any Amodex to try or maybe Vanish stain remover?
I hope you like your November Rain and J.Herbin Grenat.

[calamus]

I always want to spell color colour on this forum (I lived in England for a year and I've visited Canada a number of times — my first kiss, at the age of five, was in Ontario), but I always feel that I'd come across like a poser, being a Yank.

My spellchecker corrects it when I try to spell it without the "u". However, the paper I use is spelled as color. (On my screen it now has a dotted red line underneath.)

My spellchecker autocorrects it when I try to put in a "u."

[calamus]

I always want to spell color colour on this forum (I lived in England for a year and I've visited Canada a number of times — my first kiss, at the age of five, was in Ontario), but I always feel that I'd come across like a poser, being a Yank.

You wouldn’t come across as a poser. The forum is in “English” after all. Would intentionally misspell words if you were on a French language forum?

There is American English, and there is British/World English, and there are differences between them. In addition, there are pathetic Americans who speak with a fake English (or attempted English) accent, and I wouldn't want to be guilty of the written equivalent.

[Eddie Southgate]

I always want to spell color colour on this forum (I lived in England for a year and I've visited Canada a number of times — my first kiss, at the age of five, was in Ontario), but I always feel that I'd come across like a poser, being a Yank.

My spellchecker corrects it when I try to spell it without the "u". However, the paper I use is spelled as color. (On my screen it now has a dotted red line underneath.)

My spellchecker autocorrects it when I try to put in a "u."

Turn off the spellchecker . It didn't correct auto corrects ? Mine shows autocorrects with the red line .

Eddie

[Chrissy]

I spotted that Seitz-kreuznach has been selling both 30ml and 80ml bottles of Diamine November Rain on ebay with free International shipping.