Plays well with low-quality papers
Pity me, I work daily with the cheapest copy papers that your tax dollars can buy. And I happen to like Visconti pens, which write wet to say the least. Sailor Gentile Epinard, combined with a fine nib, gives me the best results I've had yet. And Anderson's service is second to none. Maybe one of these days I'll spring for a fine nibbed pen from a Japanese manufacturer--Sailor would make sense--and we'll see if I get even better results. But I know I'll be using this ink for my everyday writing.
Sailor Jentle Epinard
"I have been looking for a darker, highly saturated green ink, and found it in the Epinard by Sailor.
Packaging and shipping speed by Anderson Pens is first class."
Gorgeous Green ink
This is by far one of the most gorgeous green inks I have ever come across. It's almost a dusty, swampish green, with undertones of brown and gold revealed at different viewing angles.
A new favorite dark green.
This ink is dark but still shades to show off the dusky greenness. The color is similar to Private Reserve Avacado. It smells of leather, and performs flawlessly. After a more than 5 minute soak in water it was still perfectly legible, but now blue. A new go to green for me, and I have 18 bottles of green ink!
Gorgeous color
Though I have had this ink for some time, I've been waiting for the nib, for which it was intended, to arrive. So, the nib's here, and the Epinard is in full flow. The nib I'm using is larger than my usual nib - medium - and it really brings out this gorgeous colour. Green is one of those colours where, like red, they mostly have their uses, but you wouldn't write a letter with them. This green would be one of the few exceptions. I've reviewed inks previously and mentioned that they'd be suitable for a letter, but this is in a different class. I had the same experience with Sailor Grenade, which looked ""red"" and turned out to be, like this, full of colour and warmth, but also a really lovely ink to use, for itself, rather than marking, or accounts. It's an ink you write with, or doodle with, just so that you can see it. Incidentally, I DO mean that. Maybe - I'm weird that way. It looks less great if you drink it, of course. Reviews of this ink suggest that it has better than average water resistance, and is like Grenade in that respect. I also haven't read a single review where the reviewer, and commentators didn't like it, and where there wasn't a sufficiently readable residue after a good soaking. As for the colour itself, in the absence of a swab, I'd say that the colour of the label on the bottle is a pretty good representation. Like all Sailor bottled inks, the bottle contains a removable ink reservoir. However, the bottle is shallow. Consequently, whether you will love the reservoir or remove it, will depend on how your pen fills. If you have a pen which requires some of the section to be below the ink level, for it to fill, I'd guess you'd remove the reservoir. But this is true of most of these reservoirs, including the TWSBI cones. Great for some pens, unusable for others. My suggestion - buy a Sailor pen, because they fill almost from the tip of the nib! Similarly a Lamy 2000, or that Parker 51 you should already have, will just love the reservoir. :) Lovely ink. More expensive than some, and a lot cheaper than others with great pretensions.
