Talk:Sephora

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where in the UK??

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BetacommandBot 05:26, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of store locations?

not good —Preceding unsigned comment added by BMWR1200C (talk • contribs) 15:21, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, if you are saying that the long list of the American malls at the end was not really appropriate. I deleted them beause it didn't add to the article. I will be working on improving the article, if I can find reliable sources to help. Dawn Bard (talk) 03:17, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

List of countries should be included, but not specific malls. For a fact (by sight) I know Sephora is present in France, Spain, the UK, Germany, Poland and the USA, but that's not even close to 21, maybe someone has a complete list.

The legend

Can anyone confirm the existence of the legend mentioned at the origin of the name? I question the truth of this paragraph, so I move it here until it can be confirmed.

The word "Sephora" also means "Slumbering SeaDemon". It comes from one of the first legends, of what is now known today as the Loch Ness monster. It was a very minor icon in Greek Mythology, however. The only way to awake this "SeaDemon" was to have it come in contact with something "From The Skies Above", in other words, Outer Space. The Creature's skin was believed to have been "undamagable" making it basically immortal, unless one of its major organs was greatly harmed. Not much else is known about this legend, except that it began most other sea monster legends.

86.101.3.183 (talk) 06:50, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Name and Logo section

Mishmash of sephos for beauty and the Greek form of Tzipporah, from the Hebrew? Citation needed? Seriously. That doesn't sound right to me, and with no citation, the following seems more likely.

Sephora sounds like a play on the Latin Amphora to me. Thus the name is basically sephos (from the Greek root for "beauty") and phoreus ("carrier," from pherein "to carry"). Sephora is a "container of beauty." That's a much more plausible explanation than "beautiful bird," lacking a citation.

While I completely agree, this explanation is going to need a citation from a reliable source as well, otherwise it would be considered original research. Honestly, the current statement should probably removed anyway until a source for something can be found. --13² 17:13, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]