Papier Plume Bayou Nightfall

[visvamitra]

Papier Plume is s stationery shop situated in the heart of the French Quarter in New Orleans. The company began its business in 2001 however the shop was opened in 2007. From what I see on google maps the shop looks quite nice.

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Some time ago the company started to offer fountain pen inks. They're supposed to be hand poured and bottled right in the shop. The inks are water based and described as french inks (imported? anyone knows french private label maker?). At the moment the inks are available in 15 colors and are sold in three bottles: small (15 ml), medium (30 ml), big (50 ml):

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Bayou Nightfall is an interesting ink with unique hue. It's somewhere between green, blue and green. The ink is moderately saturated and offers nice and consistent flow. The shading is quite strong and differences between text parts are easily visible even from finer nibs. The sample was sent to me by namrehsnoom - thanks!

Drops of ink on kitchen towel

Software ID

Color range

Field Notes, Kaweco Classic Sport, B

Tsubame, Kaweco Classic Sport, B

Tomoe River, Kaweco Classic Sport, B

Comparison

Water resistance

[namrehsnoom]

Lovely splashes... the more I use this ink, the more I like it. The colour is probably a love or hate thing, but it’s certainly unique and stands out from the crowd.

[visvamitra]

Definitely.

[vojtahlad]

It's quite disgusting to me. Colour of a mould...

[inkstainedruth]

Reminds me a bit of some (unidentified color name) ink that Monteverde gave out as swag at DCSS a few years ago.

Thanks for the review. I think I can pass on this one.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[DrDebG]

Thank you Vis for your excellent review! But, IMHO meh!

[Intensity]

Sigh, this looks so much like my PP Oyster Grey... I often wonder if I got a mislabeled Bayou Nightfall, or maybe my bottle is from a batch that had extra blue-green added to the gray... I keep waiting for someone to post some side-by-side writing samples of both of those inks.

Edited February 26, 2018 by Intensity

[lapis]

Sigh, this looks so much like my PP Oyster Grey... I often wonder if I got a mislabeled Bayou Nightfall, or maybe my bottle is from a batch that had extra blue-green added to the gray... I keep waiting for someone to post some side-by-side writing samples of both of those inks.

 

Hmm... this doesn't look like my PP Oyster Grey which is bluer and more silvery. It looks more like their Street Car Green which has that green plus brown. Wait, it also has a lot of grey in it too. I love it. Thanks for the nice review, Vis!

In a certain way, it's also a great example of an ink colour which is just not all that easy to describe. Tons of blues, greens, reds, browns, blacks are all much more easy to describe. IMO.

[theart]

 

 

Hmm... this doesn't look like my PP Oyster Grey which is bluer and more silvery. It looks more like their Street Car Green which has that green plus brown. Wait, it also has a lot of grey in it too. I love it. Thanks for the nice review, Vis!

In a certain way, it's also a great example of an ink colour which is just not all that easy to describe. Tons of blues, greens, reds, browns, blacks are all much more easy to describe. IMO.

 

 

I picked up a bottle of this at the shop and was told that Oyster Grey is one of the components of it, which explains the cyan around the edges of the paper towel test. Side by side, the density of the Bayou Nightfall seems a littler lower though.

 

While Oyster Grey looks almost neutral at first glance, Bayou Nightfall leans more towards an obvious green.