Sienne - St Dupont

[visvamitra]

St Dupont Paris is a brand name and manufacturer of lighters, collectible pens, handbags, perfumes (produced under license by Interparfums) and other gadgets using the trademark diamond-head pattern. The company has been producing luxury items since its founding in 1872. The founder of the brand, Simon Tissot-Dupont, was born in Savoy in 1847 - the company owes its initials to him. It seems at the moment they offer only two inks in bottle (black and blue) and two more in cartridges. SOme time ago their inky offer was wider and counted 5 inks:

 

1. Bleu
2. Bleu Ciel
3. Noir
4. Sienne
5. Turquoise

Michael R. sent me samples of few (dozens) inks, St Dupont among others.

 

Sienne is nice inks with strong smell and very good flow. It's not amazingly lubricated but it's good ink.

 

Ink Splash

Drops of ink on kitchen towel

Software ID

Tomoe River, Kaweco Sport Classic, B

Leuchtturm 1917, Kaweco Sport, B

Eversharp Skyline, Lyreco

Water resistance

Comparison

[lapis]

Thanks for the nice review. I've been looking for this one for a long time now. As you say, they only offer two inks in bottles today but all four in cartridges. The other two are their violet/purple (still issued in bottles up to a few years ago) and the Blue Nuit. But this Sienne and their turquoise have been gone for about 10 years.

 

Mike

[Barkingpig]

I was lucky to find a bottle offered on Ebay this summer & happily was able to purchase it. I love the color but would be hard pressed to call it a Sepia. But I like most brown inks and enjoy this for it's depth of color. It reminds me a bit of SBRE Brown's BROWN ink from Diamine last year.