L'amant - Sailor Bung Box

[visvamitra]

Sailor is my favourite ink maker. Sadly their most interesting inks are available only in Japan or from internet retailers. There are few japanese shops famous for their wide and interesting range of Sailor inks. One of most well-known is Bung Box. A lot of people were taken by interesting bottles and intriguing colors. It seems however that recently many ink enthusiasts started to shy away from this line since Bung Box inks became much more bitterly expensive than other Sailor inks.

The line consists of quite a few colors. My list is incomplete and most of the names aren't translated well. If you have full list of BB inks and/or could gheklp me with correcting english names, help me sort this out

1. 4B Blue/Black
   
2. BB Espresso
   
3. Dandyism
   
4. Emerald
   
5. Enshu Black
   
6. Fuyiyama Blue
   
7. Hamanako Eel
   
8. Imperial Purple
   
9. Ink of the Witch
   
10. L’Amant
    
11. Luminous Green
    
12. Melancholic Gray
    
13. Mocha
    
14. Music Black
    
15. Nostalgia
    
16. Oamezaki Sunset
    
17. Omaezaki
    
18. Omaezaki Blue
    
19. Orange
    
20. Pink
    
21. Ruby
    
22. Sapphire
    
23. Silent Night
    
24. Soleil
    
25. Tears of Clown
    

Before I write few words about the ink allow me to start by saying thank you Tinnjapan for sending me samples of different Sailor inks.

L'Amant is amazing. Seriously. It's simply stunning.

Ink splash

Drops of ink on kitchen towel

Software ID

Color range

Tomoe River - Kaweco Sport Classic, eyedropper, B

Leuchtturm1917, Pelikan M405, M nib

Edited January 17, 2016 by visvamitra

[lgsoltek]

Oooh, look at that shading.

[Ghost Plane]

*Cackles happily while clutching a precious bottle purchased before the price madness*

[sakayume]

This is gorgeous. I wish I'd bought some Bungbox last year before they got their amazon shop up and running again.

[gylyf]

Stunning ink.

[visvamitra]

I agree

[AndyYNWA]

This ink......!

[mydecemberht]

Oh my gosh! That purple is something else. Why does Sailor have to keep producing amazing inks?!

[mehandiratta]

this is the ink that has been eluding me for quite a while.... this is purely divine

[Morbus Curiositas]

Hi Visva

 

Excellent review as always but that colour is THE perfect purple I believe

[Morbus Curiositas]

Btw

 

l'Amant is also the title of an autobiographic novel by Marguerite Dumas a French writer who lived in Vietnam during the french colonisation

 

Also a film was made based on the novel

 

It is called l'Amant but is also known as The lover

[haruka337]

this is the ink that has been eluding me for quite a while.... this is purely divine

Bung Box L'Amant is currently available in Bung Box's Amazon Store (01/19/2016): Bung Box L'Amant

 

Draw back--more expensive in their Amazon store.

 

Email the people at Vanness and see what they can do. They do not have the color you want at the moment, but perhaps they can hold a bottle for you when it comes in, or at the very least, email you when a shipment arrives. I believe they now ship internationally.

[inkstainedruth]

Oh my gosh! That purple is something else. Why does Sailor have to keep producing amazing inks?!

 

Worse yet -- why does Sailor have to keep producing amazing but *expensive* and hard to get inks?

Thanks for the review. And not....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[amberleadavis]

Here's what I think is interesting, check out how it fades:

 

http://sheismylawyer.com/She_Thinks_In_Ink/2014-Inklings/2014-Ink_780.jpg

http://sheismylawyer.com/She_Thinks_In_Ink/2014-Inklings/2014-Ink_780-F.jpg

[mehandiratta]

Bung Box L'Amant is currently available in Bung Box's Amazon Store (01/19/2016): Bung Box L'Amant

 

Draw back--more expensive in their Amazon store.

 

Email the people at Vanness and see what they can do. They do not have the color you want at the moment, but perhaps they can hold a bottle for you when it comes in, or at the very least, email you when a shipment arrives. I believe they now ship internationally.

Thank you

[VivienR]

Bung Box L'Amant is currently available in Bung Box's Amazon Store (01/19/2016): Bung Box L'Amant

 

Draw back--more expensive in their Amazon store.

 

Email the people at Vanness and see what they can do. They do not have the color you want at the moment, but perhaps they can hold a bottle for you when it comes in, or at the very least, email you when a shipment arrives. I believe they now ship internationally.

 

Sadly its price plus shipping is a thank you, but no thanks. This is a really lovely purple, but in a simple Sailor bottle is a no way.

[haruka337]

Diamond bottles are going for ridiculous prices right now, what's more, it's a nightmare to open most of the time--ink spilling is a bit of an issue

 

I'll take the jar bottles over the poorly designed faceted bottles any day.

[HalloweenHJB]

Just got a hold of a bottle, and I tried it on Canson tracing paper. The vivid gold sheen is phenomenal!