Perfume Designer Defeats Angelina Jolie For ‘Shiloh’ Name

After a five-month legal battle with one of Hollywood’s most famous parents, fragrance designer Symine Salimpour has won the battle for “Shiloh,” according to the Washington Post.

Salimpour won the right to use the name on June 15, when Angelina Jolie, mother of Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, dropped her legal challenge to Salimpour’s trademark application on the name.

Now Salimpour’s arranging for the first shipment of the new perfume, Shiloh.

Jolie’s legal challenge was filed Jan. 31. “I was so scared,” Salimpour told The Post. “I mean, c’mon, who wouldn’t be?” She said she heard about Jolie’s filing through a phone call from a friend.

Jolie’s daughter was born May 27, 2006, and the application to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office happened on June 19 of that year. But Salimpour has continued to maintain that she began developing the fragrance about two years ago — long before Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt was born.

“In Hebrew, Shiloh means ‘his gift,’” Salimpour told The Post. “And I will use the perfume to give something back to the children of Israel and the Middle East.”

And that’s just what she plans to do. Five percent of the profits from the perfume will be given to an Israeli-based nonprofit organization called The Beit Issie Shapiro. The nonprofit serves disabled children by offering them medical and educational services.

Calls by The Washington Post to Jolie and her lawyer were unreturned. Access Hollywood has not attempted to contact Jolie or her representatives independently about this report.

Salimpour also tells the Post that soon she’ll be ready to make her first shipment of Shiloh to the United States.