Noodlers Nightshade

[penguinmaster]

http://facstaff.uww.edu/pellizzt/ink%20reviews/Noodlers%20Nightshade.jpg

[rickyriz]

This ink provoke a bit of curiosity to me, as I have some difficulty to assign to it a clear color connotation.

 

Can you try do describe it?

 

If I have to put it togheter with other inks in order to better understand, I'd probabily choose:

 

-J.Herbin Poussière de Lune

-FPN Tulipe noir

-Diamine Damson

-Private Reserve Black Cherry or Burgundy Mist

-Noodler's Red-Black (as your other review)

 

..am I wrong? Is there similarity in some pair match?

 

Thank you very much.

Edited February 23, 2009 by rickyriz

[saintsimon]

It's a dark purplish brown. Not really Aubergine, nor reddish.

[drifting]

If I have to put it togheter with other inks in order to better understand, I'd probabily choose:

 

-J.Herbin Poussière de Lune

-FPN Tulipe noir

-Diamine Damson

-Private Reserve Black Cherry or Burgundy Mist

-Noodler's Red-Black (as your other review)

 

..am I wrong? Is there similarity in some pair match?

 

You can see a swab of Nightshade next to Poussière de Lune in this scan, here. While I understand Saintsimon's description of 'dark purplish brown', I didn't group Nightshade in with my browns. Noodler's Red-black, on the other hand, is much more 'brown' to my eye: it's actually almost identical to Waterman Havana Brown from a distance, though the red and brown components are evident upon closer inspection.

 

I don't have any experience with the other inks listed, though I would love to see a good comparison of Nightshade with Tulipe Noir.

 

Ryan.

 

 

 

[rickyriz]

Ok, searching on FPN I find this link that could help:

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/in...st&p=407958

 

I go along drifting and saintsimon in description and matching color, but not sure anymore this ink is so desirable to me...even if in my last ink order I was near to buy it.

 

Anyway, thank you to all!

Edited February 24, 2009 by rickyriz

[QM2]

My Noodler's Nightshade is a little more violet and less gray than the way the colour in the review shows on my screen. It is a rich, dark violet colour.

 

Here is a comparison to Private Reserve Ebony Purple and Herbin Poussier de Lune:

 

http://queenmargot.com/inks_ebonypurple.jpg

 

http://queenmargot.com/inks_nightshade.jpg

 

http://queenmargot.com/inks_poulune.jpg

Edited February 24, 2009 by QM2

[Souldrifter]

The bottle I got was off... it was a dark red/black sort of color, not what I wanted AT ALL. I wanted the purpleblack I got in my sampler.

[drifting]

Thanks for the link rickyriz (and Limner!), that scan with the Tulipe Noir was just what I was looking for!

 

Ryan.

 

edit to remove link

Edited February 24, 2009 by drifting

[Annie]

My Noodler's Nightshade is a little more violet and less gray than the way the colour in the review shows on my screen. It is a rich, dark violet colour.

My Nightshade, looks like QM's example.

Edited February 24, 2009 by Annie

[GoldenGirl]

http://facstaff.uww.edu/pellizzt/ink%20reviews/Noodlers%20Nightshade.jpg

 

Thanks for the review :-)

 

Question...Is this ink waterproof? I don't need bulletproof, just waterproof..

[GeekyGirl]

QM2 - That's a great comparison. I must be drawn to this color spectrum as I have, and love, all three of these colors. Someone mentioned a similarity between Nightshade and Diamine Damson. I see Damson and Poussiere de Lune as more similar colors than Nightshade.

 

What is "FPN Tulipe Noir"? –Did Fountain Pen Network market it's own inks in the past?

[inkstainedruth]

QM2 - That's a great comparison. I must be drawn to this color spectrum as I have, and love, all three of these colors. Someone mentioned a similarity between Nightshade and Diamine Damson. I see Damson and Poussiere de Lune as more similar colors than Nightshade.

 

What is "FPN Tulipe Noir"? –Did Fountain Pen Network market it's own inks in the past?

The FPN inks were special exclusive Noodlers inks made specifically for us. They sporadically reappear for sale. I can't personally say what they're like for the most part, or if they have special properties -- bulletproof, eternal, etc -- that many regular Noodler's inks have (Tulip Noire was a purplish red color, I think).

Someone in my local pen club had gotten a bottle of the Galileo Manuscript Brown (I think during the second go-round of availability), but the batch he had was really disappointing to me -- it was very reddish and not what I would have expected from an ink that was supposed to mimic that of old manuscripts (conté crayon, maybe, but not ink; but that was maybe just me).

The third ink was Van Gogh Starry Night, which IIRC was a very dark blue-black; I don't know how it compares to other almost-black blue-blacks like Diamine Eclipse (which I like a lot) or Noodler's Ellis Island Blue-Black (exclusive to Fountan Pen Hospital in NYC).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth