Waterman - Tender Purple

[coriander]

Thank you to everyone who was so warm and welcoming on my first review a few months ago! Finally returning with another review

 

Tender purple: we know her, we love her. Reminds me sometimes of the pansies that would spring up in my backyard growing up.

 

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"Waterman Tender Purple

Lamy Safari F nib, Rhodia DotPad I've had since the mid-2010s

 

SMEAR TEST: five seconds or less!

Well, I mentioned it in my first review, so it seemed only fitting to review Tender Purple next. This is THE purple to me00this is the colour I think of when someone says the word "purple". Weirdly, not quite as wet or fast-flowing as I remember, but I've had this bottle since the mid-2010s and haven't pulled it out since at least 2021, so who's to say! Maybe I'm misremembering, maybe it's a quality of aging, maybe it's Maybelline! (I should say, "not as wet as I remember" isn't to say this ink is dry, it's still lovely and wet.)

 

No feathering, maybe the slightest bit of spread. No bleedthrough, but ghosting on this paper.

 

There is some shading with this pen/ink combo, thought not all that much. A respectable but subtle amount, we'll say.

 

Not too much to say about the bottle here. Stable, nice big opening. I did have to run the bottle under the tap because dried ink had glued it shut, but that's more on me for not pulling this one out in a long while despite it being only one of 3-4 bottles of ink I have with me on this side of the country.

 

Thanks for reading ❤️❤️❤️ "

 

Waterproofness test reveals it to have all but no resistance to the droplets.

[LizEF]

Thank you, @coriander, for another review!  Tender Purple is an exception to Waterman's usual dryness.  And it's a lovely shade of purple.  Great job on the review - your picture shows the "respectable but subtle" shading very nicely!

[lapis]

Thanks from me, too. This is one of my oldest inks. AFAIK one of the oldest purples of all. I'm into my 3rd or 4th bottle since I started. As you say, an exceptionally "good" -- and fool-proof -- ink as re flow, drying time, maintenance etc etc. Also, it mixes well with everything. Couldn't do without it. (Also, IMO there  hasn't been any change in the formulation since its renaming in 2011.)

[yazeh]

Thank you for an excellent review  It looks like a lovely shade of purple. Keep on the good work  

[InesF]

Thank you, @coriander for the ink review. 👍 Well done!

Indeed Waterman Purple is one of the most amazing purple inks for comparable little money.