Diamine Inkvent 2025: Day 5 — Marie Rose
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*Please note that the scan is the accurate representation of this color.
Day 5!
Greetings! For the fifth day of Inkvent, we have Marie Rose.
The Color and Properties
Diamine Marie Rose is a golden-yellow ink. In both print and cursive writing, the ink shades with a crisp cut where the ink pools at the bottom of the letters and is darker, more brown around the edges of the shaded areas.
Ink splat
Ink droplets
Performance | Cleaning
Rhodia
Leuchtturm
Marie Rose was well behaved on the papers I used with it, and I didn’t encounter any traces of bleeding or feathering during my writing. This, unfortunately, was unsurprising because Marie Rose has a painfully dry flow. There wasn’t a lot in the way of lubrication either, and the result was an overall unpleasant writing experience. Still, the ink at least worked, and despite the dry flow, I didn’t notice any drop-offs in flow during extended writing. This ink may be okay with much wetter-tuned pens.
Cleaning this ink out was easy and only took a single soak and flush with a bulb syringe, with no visible color or residue remaining on the pen or nib units.
Writing Samples
Written on 52 gsm Tomoe River paper (white, 7mm ruling) with a medium nib.
Written on Midori MD paper (cream, 7mm ruling), with a medium nib.
My personal thoughts…
Marie Rose was, unfortunately, a massive disappointment to me because when I was swatching the inks, it was distinctly one of my favorites. It’s no understatement to say I wanted this ink so badly to be good. It’s not entirely bad — the color itself is still excellent, but it was so unpleasant to write with that doing the writing samples for this review felt like nothing more than tedium, and what’s the fun in that? I didn’t like this ink.
But what is a Marie Rose? Apparently, it’s a shrimp cocktail sauce, and curiously, all the images I’ve seen were more of a red-pink color. How does that line up with Inkvent? It seems to be a popular festive appetizer in the UK. Does that justify it being in the Inkvent calendar? By 2025’s standards, I guess so.
Written on 52 gsm Tomoe River paper with a medium nib.
More Images/Info:
Featured in the photography and writing samples:
Diamine Marie Rose
TWSBI Diamond 580AL “Iceberg Blue”, medium nib
Traveler’s Company brass clip — Endless Pens | Amazon
Nanami Paper Tomoe River Cafe Note B6 Slim - Ruled
Midori MD A6 lined notebook — Amazon
Current text: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens — Amazon
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Tools and materials used in the writing samples:
A TWSBI Diamond 580 AL with 3 nib units including a Fine, Medium, and Broad. All nibs are tuned to perform at the same wetness.
A Rhodia No16 A5 DotPad
A Leuchtturm1917 A5 Notebook