Beautiful colours, very lovely and smooth. As someone else had mentioned, the wax was hard to remove from the pens to begin writing. I enjoy the colours a lot, it was dark enough for me but also muted-ish. The only proper gripe i had was that using it on Tomoe river paper, it bled through slightly. I probably will use it on thicker paper. A little sad about that but it's not their fault this pen is juicy and I wanted to use it on 52gsm paper!