Beautiful green/red ink!

This is a heavy sheening ink even with my EF nibs. Just scrumptious colors.

What a lovely ink.

Love the ink color
Hate the bottle design

I love the color and the sheen. I just can't use it for letters because it comes off on everyones hands that reads one of the letters written with it. Very sad, it works so well in my stub nibs.

Gorgeous ink!!!

I love this ink! It has a reddish sheen as you write and lays down smoothly and fully saturated.

I like the ink. However it is much lighter than expected

I really love this green, I put it in a B nib and just enjoyed watching it flow. Its a deep rich green that really does remind me of holly.

Holly is definitely a Christmas ink- green with a red sheen that isn't overpowering. In my Creaper, it's a very wet ink so there wasn't a lot of line variation to show but that sheen pops through. The base green shifts from mid-tone to very dark (almost an evergreen), which I think gives the sheen a bit more oompf and keeps the ink very legible. Like all sheeners, it takes awhile to dry. I don't love it enough to buy a bottle (to be totally honest, I'm a little over red-sheen inks, especially blue with a red sheen and green with a red sheen, due to market saturation). But getting a sample to use for my Christmas cards and December letters? That's definitely worth it. Attached photos show it swatched on Clairfontaine 90 gsm paper and as a letter (shown straight-on and at an angle to show sheen) on Yamamoto Cosmo Air Light 75gsm paper, using a Noodler's Creaper fountain pen with a flex nib.

Such a beautiful deep color. I was looking for something close to this year's Black Ivy which was in the Inkvent calendar, and while this is more green, it is still very beautiful.

Simply beautiful. I am pretty stuck on Diamine inks but this one is my favorite right now. The shading is excellent. Now I go look for more. This lays down a lovely, shaded line from a Sailor M/F nib.

A favorite. It doesn't sheen as much as Inkvent Polar Ice in my extra fine pens, but it does!! Some nice burgundy pops in. Flows great, dries quickly enough that I don't smudge. I like harmonizing it with Season's Greetings, which is darker.

I'm a sucker for green ink. That and browns. Don't get me wrong there are some great blues, red, oranges but I have a special place for greens. This his the spot. I used diamine and noodlers for my daily pens. When i pick a green I look for a dark green as I use it in diagrams for work. The pen of choose is a Twsbi fine nib as the Parker med let too much ink out for junk paper. The Twsbi works great with 75 gram copier paper I use to sketch at work. Will buy again

This is such a pretty ink and comes in the coolest bottle! It's nice and dark which I always appreciate.

This ink is spectacular. It has just the right amount of sheen!

This is a medium wet ink, the sheen is minimal which reduces the need for continuous mixing. I used a Pelikan Souveran 600 with a fine nib and used it on a variety of papers but it showed much better on the cream pages rather than the whites. A perfect Winter green.

Shortly after receiving the exceptionally well packaged Diamine Holly - Sheen ink in the US Mail from Goulet Pen Co. I had to try it out. In the past many inks totally depended on the nib size and either wet or dry to look good. So I inked up my Panache (1mm), my Waterman Phileas (Medium), and my Daniel Hechter (fine), along with a smear from a Q-tip.Every pen wrote extremely well and did not scratch my paper, almost as well as if they had lubricated ink in them which this is not suppose be from the small amount of reports I've read. I love how smooth it flowed although that depends on the nib used. Being a left handed writer, how fast it dried was great. Love it number two!When I read the other remarks about it, there was suppose to be a slight red and a sheen to this ink. With all my pens and swab, I saw no red or sheen, nothing, not even when I washed things out in my bathroom sink. If anything the Holly had a very slight Marine or Aqua shade to it but that was not really apparent until you compare it to other inks. If it is suppose to have a red cast in it, I think someone forgot to put it in my ink. Definitely no red to the ink at all nor sheen. I guess that would be a not loved.Speaking of other inks, without looking deeply into the writings samples, this ink Holly has a very, very similar look as Pelikan 4001 Deep Green. In fact without a good study, showing a very slight difference, they looked the same to me. Since that shade of green is great, that is a third Love It!I had just previously purchased a bottle of Visconti ink mainly because the bottle looked great in the pictures. When I got it, I immediately noticed it to be a plastic bottle. If I had known that... Good ink but a junk bottle. Diamine has a great looking bottles and it is glass! My compliments to them! That is a fourth Love it!I don't really care about the ink being water resistant but can tell you Holly came off my fingers just like most other inks when cleaning.Not to make a new rating but in my book it's a four to one Love it!Even without the sheen to it, it is still a great color of green and very smooth. Being such a fast dryer, it is a left hander's dream! Add all that to the bottle shape and you have a winner!

After using this ink for a while, I'm tempted to buy more inks from the Blue Edition line. The sheen effect is captivating. I would like to draw attention to the description on the product page that says it works best on high quality paper. They're not kidding. After I inked up a pen (a TWSBI Eco M), I tried it out on a bunch of different common papers I had around me - a yellow legal pad, a free notebook I got from a conference, a Rhodia Webnotebook - and no sheen. It was just a nice evergreen shade. So I emptied the pen, shook the bottle even more, refilled the pen and tried again. Still no sheen. If you buy the bottle, you'll get (at least I did) three or so small cardboard squares. I assume this is a material that Diamine knows will let the ink do its thing. It did. Having success there, I asked my wife (an artist who has tons of different types of paper) and she gave me a piece of vellum and some marker paper for testing. In both cases, the sheen was more dramatic than the cardboard samples Diamine provided. So that means I need to buy some higher quality paper. I generally buy water resistant inks, so I did test it a bit. If you're using it on average paper on which it will not sheen, it's average. On the papers where you'll see the sheen, it's not remotely water resistant. Bottom line: if you just use regular paper, don't buy this ink. It's not going to do what you want, and you're paying a premium for a fancy glass bottle and the red sheen you'll never see. Just get a dark green. Diamine has many options, one of which may even be the base for this ink. If you use higher quality paper (note that it didn't work on the 90g Clairefontaine paper in my Rhodia Webnotebook) or are willing to buy some, then you should totally get this ink. The sheen effect is quite striking.

I bought this Holly ink for a gift for a family member, but of course I had to try a tiny amount in one of my pens. It's a pretty green with a little bit of red sheen in the right pen and nib. Like most Diamine inks it is well behaved. The bottle is certainly different and is very pretty; maybe a bit feminine or just call it fancy with its little feet. I like this line of inks. I have not tested its water resistance, and I've only used a tiny bit in one pen so take my ratings with a grain of salt. It wouldn't let me skip them.

This is a gorgeous green. It's a lot like Monteverde California Teal, in my opinion, but Holly shades far better and sheens. I've been trying to find the perfect green for some time now. I've tried California Teal, Monteverde Yosemite Green, Diamine Sherwood Green, and Robert Oster River of Fire, but none of those were perfect. This ink makes my heart sing when I see it on the page. I will always keep a pen inked up with this. And the bottle is beyond gorgeous. It's staying on my desk! I'm so glad that Diamine made these Inkvent calendar inks available for the rest of us. I'm so pleased.

I just finished my Christmas cards using this ink with a 1.1mm stub nib. Love the dark green color. Perfect for this time of year.

I got this ink specifically for writing holiday cards, and it does not disappoint! Great color out of my 1.1 stub equipped Twsbi 580, and it really pops off the page.