Calllifolio Équinoxe 6: An Ink With A Mind Of Its Own

[senzen]

There are couple of very good reviews, this is just to give an idea of the metamorphosis this ink goes through, and how it looks next to others.

 

Notice the first doodles in row 1 and row 3: when it starts it wants to be a (not purplish but certainly not as greenish) blue, closer to Souten, but eventually settles on a green blue, closer to Kon Peki, but still distinct, even if this shot doesn't capture that perfectly. When it starts it also has a lot of sheen. This is with a Faber Castell Ambition in extra fine, on a Rhodia n. 8 pad. By the time I started rows 11 and 13 after filling in the other colours, it had gone back to its darker self; it was kept in a box in the few minutes in between, I don't think we can talk about evaporation: sediments??

 

 

Row 4: Ama Iro, Kon Peki, Souten back side of the nib, Souten, Tsuyu Kusa.

 

Row 6: Chiku Rin, Vert Empire, Verde Muschiato, Ina Ho, Asa Gao.

 

Row 8: Orange Indien, Fuyu Gaki, Mandarin, Inti, Myosotis.

 

Row 10: Ancient Copper, Rouge Hematite, Diamine Poppy Red, Lie de thé, Ajisai.

 

Row 12: Verdigris, Perle Noire Pilot extra fine, perle Noire Muji fine, yama Guri.

 

In the end I don't mind the colour shift since I've come to expect it, I really like this colour in its different variants anyway, and it looks good coming out of the pearwood pen, but I can understand why it might not be everyone's cup of tea.

 

Vert Empire is misbehaving and looking a lot darker than it is, there's always one in the family shot!

 

Edit: reshooting just for Vert Empire

 

Edited April 11, 2018 by pseudo88

[Chrissy]

I don't think any of those squares of bright blue ink show L'Artisan Pastellier Callifolio Equinoxe (6). That is a teal ink that's never close to Sailor Jentle Souten.

 

I believe you might have a mislabelled bag like the one that I have, and that Lgsoltek has. See This review thread

[senzen]

I don't think any of those squares of bright blue ink show L'Artisan Pastellier Callifolio Equinoxe (6). That is a teal ink that's never close to Sailor Jentle Souten.

 

I believe you might have a mislabelled bag like the one that I have, and that Lgsoltek has. See This review thread

 

 

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Chrissy]

OK then, you have a mislabelled bottle rather than a mislabelled pouch. It's not Equinoxe (6). That's a teal ink that looks more like Sailor Yama dori than Souten.

[lgsoltek]

 

 

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

 

Yep, that's the same bottle as mine. And the same Souten-ish colour. Not that dark teal shown elsewhere.

[Chrissy]

It's really irritating that the "wrong" ink comes in bottles and pouches. "sigh"

 

Do we know what the actual colour is yet?