777 Sauvage

777 opens with bright bergamot and pepper, a direct match for Sauvage's sharp, unmistakable start. The heart is genuinely comprehensive, running through Sichuan pepper, elemi, vetiver, patchouli, geranium and pink pepper, tracking the Eau de Parfum concentration's fuller note list closely rather than the simpler base formula. Cedar, labdanum and amber finish things off with the warm, ambroxan-adjacent glow that gives Sauvage its familiar dry-down. The note coverage here is impressively thorough for a budget oil, and the fresh-spicy-amber shape is clearly recognisable within seconds of application. What it can't replicate is scale: Sauvage built its reputation partly on huge, all-day projection, and this oil format stays intimate and close to the skin by comparison, fading within a few hours. For a personal, everyday version of one of the most famous scents in the world, 777 delivers the character convincingly.