on saleLeuchtturm1917 Medium A5 Notebook - Rising Sun, Dot Grid

I love these journals - and particularly love this new orange-y color.

Color is way off what is shown on website. I was looking for golden yellow and instead received pale orange. Definitely not the summery sunshine color I had hoped for.

I've been using Leuchtturm notebooks for years so I have zero complaints about the quality, but wanted to share a review because the color is much more orange than it appears in the product photos. I was expecting a nice saturated yellow but it's definitely orange. I had been planning on using it for next year's bujo (planning ahead!) but will now just use it for a writing project because it's not a color I want to linger over every day. I ended up ordering the neutral brown color instead for bujo purposes.

A decent notebook in a beautiful color that is more orange than yellow. Very thin paper and plenty of it with numbered pages and a table of contents. Ink has not bled through but you can see it on the reverse page.

This is a perfectly fine notebook - good paper, good organization - but I will never buy another Leuchtturm notebook. Like the last one I bought, this one smells really bad. I don't know if it's because of the kind of paper that's used in it, or the way it's stored, or what, but it's a deal-breaker for me. This would not be an issue for normal people, but since I have life-threatening allergies, I have to detox the notebook before I can use use it. I do not have this problem with Rhodia or Clairefontaine, both of which I love, so I will stick with them.