on saleLAMY petrol - 50ml Bottled Ink

The ink is exactly as I wanted in my Lamy Al-Star extra-fine point. No shimmer or smell. Love the blue-greenish color.

Much darker than I thought…added distilled water for 5:1 ratio…now it shows that woderful color

When Lamy released Petrol Safari pens and then Petrol AL-Safari pens, many of us thought we’d died and gone to pen heaven. Until they stopped producing the inks! People who had squirreled away a box or two of cartridges were selling them for exorbitant prices on places like eBay! I wrote to them—as I’m sure many of you did and it was, well, limited is limited…grrrr. But now they release the bottled version like it’s something new. Whatever. For access to this, I’m willing to pretend to be gaslighted (gaslit?)! So happy it’s back and it’s beautiful!

Overall I have found this ink easy to write with. It flows well from any pen its been loaded in. The color is lovely and is easy to read. All around a solid buy. I would repurchase.

What a beautiful ink! I wanted somethhing different, but not too bright, and this is it--a very dark, rich peacock. Flows smoothly in my new Pilot pen and has a nice bit of shading. Cool bottle too, with its built-in pen wipe/blotter strip.