STROB Apothecary

10/25/2026

Sean caught up with Olivia at the Moonlight Market where she launched our new Enchantry perfume bar. Olivia MacMillan 🌜🌟 (she/her) was so excited to have made so many unique scents for the sweet souls who let her create a perfume for them.

Now accepting new bookings for the Enchantry at your next party, reunion, shower or any other event you want to stand out!

10/25/2026

Trick-or-treating next Saturday, a fortune-telling alcove at Crofton Woods Creatures, and November’s full calendar inside.

Dear STRŌB Community,

A good week ahead and a very full November coming. Here’s everything.

🎃 This Saturday: Halloween at STRŌB 🎃
Saturday, October 31

Two Halloween things, both delightful:

At the shop, all day. Come trick-or-treat with us in costume (adults absolutely included, that’s half the fun). Drop-in tea leaf readings with Olivia 1-3pm. Playful Pandas runs its regular 10-11am slot for the tiniest costumes among us.

Heads up: the shop closes promptly at 4pm so we can head over to…

🔮 Crofton Woods Creatures Haunted House 🔮
1736 Urby Drive

We’re sponsoring the tarot & rune readings at the fortune-teller's corner at the Crofton Woods Creatures haunted house this Halloween! If you’re already headed to the haunted house with your crew, come find us in the alcove for a card pull or a rune reading in the spookiest setting imaginable. (The front of the house is pretty tame for scares, but if you go past the fortune-teller's corner, you'll end up in a backyard full of animatronics and "scarers").

🍂 Also Coming: Your Birthday Thank You Ends 10/31 🍂

Last week to use your $5 off any purchase over $25 gift from us, good through October 31st. We can apply your gift at checkout, just tell us you have a coupon waiting!

✨ November at STRŌB ✨

A beautiful month ahead with a few events to put on your calendar:

Thursday, November 5 · 6:30-7:30pm · Sip & Sound Bath with Stefani
Stefani’s sound baths now have a regular rhythm, dates set through April! Come lie down, sip tea, let the crystal bowls do the work. Register (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-tea-and-sound-bath-journey-with-stef-of-sage-healing-and-guidance-tickets-2003529055338) →

Saturday, November 14 · 2-4pm · Tea Blending with Sean · $45
Sean teaches tea blending on his actual birthday using his most-loved plants. Rose, Catnip, Chamomile, Cinnamon and more. You’ll walk out with a custom blend you made yourself, tucked into a tin. Watch for Wednesday's email where we'll give you more info and also give you your very own invitation to Sean's Birthday Party, held directly after the class. Register (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/seans-birthday-tea-blending-class-tickets-2003571172311) →

Saturday, November 21 · 12-4pm · Autumn Crystal Showcase & Sale
Our new crystal materials come out before they even hit the sales floor. Fresh flats of Cobaltoan Calcite and Malachite just arrived (both stunners) along with lots more. All crystals 10% off that day. Come be the first to pick through what’s new.

Saturday, November 28 · 12-4pm · Metaphysical Flea Market
We're doing Small Business Saturday a little differently this year. We're going to hold our second quarterly Metaphysical Flea Market that day! A large book table, plus tables of crystals and ritual items from community collectors. Tarot readings with Miss Elizabeth and astrology readings with April McCoy all afternoon. Register (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/metaphysical-flea-market-readings-for-small-business-saturday-tickets-2003877910774) →

📅 The Week Ahead 📅

Thursday, October 29 — Lakisha in the shop 1-5pm for spiritual wellness checkups. Olivia in the shop 1-4pm for aromatherapy and perfume appointments.

Friday, October 30 — Sean in the shop with mini-clinicals 3-6pm.

Saturday, October 31 — Playful Pandas 10-11am. Halloween at the shop until 4pm. Then join us at Crofton Woods Creatures Haunted House for tarot & rune readings in the alcove.

Sunday, November 1 — Olivia in the shop 1-4pm for aromatherapy and perfume appointments.

Book an appointment (https://www.strobapothecary.com/s/appointments) →

See you this week,
The STRŌB Apothecary Team 🌿✨

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10/23/2026

We’re here till 9!!!!

10/23/2026

Come see us tonight for the Moonlight Market at 6pm!! And TRY THESE PERFUMES OMG Olivia MacMillan 🌜🌟 (she/her) KILLED IT with them!! K love yall!! -Sean ❤️❤️❤️

10/21/2026

Handmade vendors, tarot, custom perfume blending, 10% off the shop, and all the mystical tea you can drink. Free, please RSVP.

Dear STRŌB Community,

The nights are long. The veil is thin. The front room is about to glow.

Moonlight Market is this Friday, October 23rd, 6-9pm, and it is one of our favorite nights of the entire year. If you’ve been looking for a reason to spend an evening at STRŌB that will feel like a party, a market, and a little bit of magic all at once, this is it.

✨ The Vendors ✨

Our handmade market is the heart of the night. Returning favorites and two brand-new makers:

Haunting Shadows
RHaw Creations
Crafty Fox
Majesty Park Candles (new to us this year)
Natalie's Healing Grove (new to us this year)

Expect art, jewelry, candles, and all the special treasures that only come out once a season.

🔮 Tarot with Miss Elizabeth 🔮

Miss Elizabeth will be with us all evening offering tarot and Lenormand readings. Pull up a chair, ask the cards a question, and see what the season has to reveal.

🌹 Introducing: The Enchantry 🌹

We’re launching something brand new this year that we are so excited about.

The Enchantry is our custom perfume bar. Olivia will guide you through a short scent reading and blend a whimsical, one-of-a-kind aroma live, just for you, built around your intention. 10ml spray, $25. Each session takes 10-15 minutes, and Olivia can work with two of you at a time. A short questionnaire helps streamline the process so you leave with something that genuinely feels like yours.

If you’ve been curious what it’s like to have a perfume made just for you, this is your low-pressure, high-magic entry point.

🫖 Unlimited Mystical Tea 🫖

Your free RSVP ticket is also your drink ticket. All evening long, hot and chilled mystical tea libations (all alcohol-free). Come sip your way through what we’ve brewed.

🛒 10% Off the Entire Shop 🛒

The full shop is open til 9pm with 10% off everything. Autumn gifts, cozy teas, crystals, candles, perfumes, and all the everyday magic you’ve been eyeing. And your coupon sent out in last week's email stacks if you’re spending over $25.

💚 Please RSVP 💚

The event is free and open to all, but we really do need you to claim your RSVP ticket so we can plan the room and your tea. Our Moonlight Market tends to draw a crowd, and we want to make sure there’s enough of everything for everyone who comes.

--> RSVP for the Moonlight Market (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/strobs-annual-autumn-moonlight-market-tickets-2000891508364)

🌙 A Note From Us 🌙

This is the biggest and most beloved night of our fall. If you’ve been meaning to come to STRŌB for the first time, bring a friend who hasn’t been, or just want an excuse to be out under the harvest moon with warm tea in your hands, Friday is the night.

We’d love to see you.

With love,
The STRŌB Apothecary Team 🌿✨

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10/18/2026

A quick note of thanks, a wedding to celebrate, and the Moonlight Market we can’t wait for.

Dear STRŌB Community,

A short note this Sunday, mostly to say thank you.

💚 Thank You for Showing Up Friday 💚

Our 6th Birthday Bake-Off on Friday brought together bakers, tasters, and friends into one warm room on our birthday night. To everyone who came, baked, tasted, voted, or just stopped in to say hi, thank you. We mean it.

💒 Moh and Deema Got Married 💒

Yesterday, Mohammed and Deema were married in Gaza. In the middle of everything, they chose each other and chose joy, and we are so honored to have celebrated our birthday the day before their wedding. Steeped in Hope (https://www.strobapothecary.com/product/steeped-in-hope/BJYLNS5JHFEPJVC3N2HHWY35) continues to stand with the Elfattah family year-round, as it always will.

Moh will be back online when he’s able, and we’ll share pictures of the wedding in a future note. Hold them in your heart in the meantime.

🌹 Meet the 9 Muses 🌹

Our full opening collection of 9 handcrafted perfumes (https://www.strobapothecary.com/shop/fine-fragrance/O56RC76DLIE34UJUDOPD446U) is out on the counter for sampling and purchase. Olivia has been affectionately calling them her 9 Muses, because there’s a muse behind each one, a person, a moment, a story that pulled the scent into being.

Come smell your way through them. And if one calls to you, ask, Olivia loves telling the story behind each.

🍵 Restock 🍵

Fruit Tea Chai Spice (https://www.strobapothecary.com/product/fruit-tea-chai-spice/NII7FWHK6WET3XA2RSQPX7E6) is back on the shelf, plus Holy Basil Rama (https://www.strobapothecary.com/product/holy-basil-rama-c-s-local-2026-harvest/X6BSNYTGFL343FUDXJ5KZOR2) grown at Fox Haven Farm is now on our shelves.

🌙 Next Friday: Moonlight Market 🌙

Our biggest night of the fall is Friday, October 23rd. Handmade vendors, tarot with Miss Elizabeth, custom perfume blending at The Enchantry, mystical tea libations, 10% off everything in the shop. Free to attend with an RSVP. Full details in Wednesday’s note, but mark it now.

RSVP for the Moonlight Market (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/strobs-annual-autumn-moonlight-market-tickets-2000891508364) →

🎁 Reminder: Your Birthday Thank You 🎁

Our $5 off any purchase over $25 gift to you is good through October 31st, in-store and online. Check last week's email for your code!

📅 The Week Ahead 📅

Wednesday, October 21 — Games Night at the shop 6:30 - 8:30pm.

Thursday, October 22 — Lakisha in the shop 1-5pm for spiritual wellness checkups. Olivia in the shop for Aromatherapy and Perfume from 1-4pm.

Friday, October 23 — Sean in the shop with mini-clinicals 3-6pm. Moonlight Market, 6-9pm.

Saturday, October 24 — Playful Pandas, 10-11am.

With love,
The STRŌB Apothecary Team 🌿✨

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10/11/2026

BAD ART Thursday and Reading the Body Saturday both need registrations by Tuesday to run. Here’s why you don't want to miss them.

Dear STRŌB Community,

We have two very different, very special classes next week, and both need your attention by Tuesday evening. Without a few more of you, neither can run. So if you had been thinking about it, now's the time to register.

🎨 Thursday, October 15 · BAD ART with Amenah 🎨
6-9pm · $175 · Registration deadline Tuesday evening

What would you create if it didn’t have to be good?

Amenah Arman, LGPC, is a licensed therapist, artist, and Palestinian Muslim woman who created BAD ART, a therapeutic approach that uses creative expression, imperfections and all, to help people get unstuck. She’s bringing it to STRŌB for a three-hour, after-hours, mostly-silent creative retreat.

You don’t have to consider yourself an artist. You don’t need an idea. You just need to be curious.

The evening moves through three parts: meet you (slow down, notice what you’re drawn toward), meet the block (get curious about perfectionism, fear, and the voices that interrupt the creative process), and make anyway. No critique. No requirement that the thing be good.

You may leave with something beautiful. You may leave with something terrible. Either way, you made something.

Includes materials, meditation and journaling time, aromatherapy support for the work, and $10 in shop credit to carry something home.

Bring your worst idea. We mean that as a compliment.

Register for BAD ART (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bad-art-a-3-hour-silent-creative-retreat-with-amenah-arman-tickets-2001625169765) →

🌿 Saturday, October 17 · Reading the Body with Ateeka 🌿
1-4pm · $150 · Registration deadline Tuesday evening

Ever wonder why your friend thrives on cold plunges and 5am workouts, and you just want a nap and a warm blanket? That’s Ayurveda.

Ateeka (Anne) Contee, LCPC is a licensed trauma therapist and Certified Ayurvedic Wellness Counselor who has spent over two decades integrating Western psychology with the Eastern healing traditions she grew up with in India. She’s bringing all of it to STRŌB for an afternoon that reads your constitution, not just what type you are, but how it shows up in your stress, your body, your patterns.

The afternoon includes education on Ayurveda and doshas, a guided Nadi Pariksha (hands-on pulse diagnosis with Ateeka), support in mapping your own constitution, and guidance on lifestyle habits that align with nature. Plus $10 shop credit for anything you take home.

Register for Reading the Body (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reading-the-body-an-afternoon-of-ayurveda-with-ateeka-anne-contee-tickets-2001628310158) →

🎂 Also This Friday: Our 6th Birthday Bake-Off 🎂

Quick heads up, we’re also celebrating our 6th birthday on Friday the 16th from 6:30-8pm, with our annual Bake-Off that doubles as a fundraiser for our adopted family in Gaza. Bakers, tasters, kids, and shoppers all welcome. More on this Wednesday, but mark your calendar.

Learn more about the Bake-Off → (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/strob-turns-six-a-community-bake-off-for-the-elfattah-family-tickets-2002309803523)

📅 The Week Ahead 📅

Thursday, October 15 — Lakisha in the shop 1-5pm for spiritual wellness checkups. Olivia in the shop for aromatherapy & perfume 1-4pm. BAD ART with Amenah, 6-9pm.

Friday, October 16 — Sean in the shop with mini-clinicals 3-6pm. STRŌB 6th Birthday Bake-Off, 6:30-8pm.

Saturday, October 17 — Playful Pandas, 10-11am. Reading the Body with Ateeka, 1-4pm.

See you this week,
The STRŌB Apothecary Team 🌿✨

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10/09/2026

When Olivia is in her happy place, it gets pretty wild 🤪 We never know what she’s gonna say when she gets excited making fine fragrances. We can’t get her to shut up about the quality of her materials and if we have to hear about the incredible “drydown” on her new Sandalwood co2 one more time we’re gonna need a cookie.

Love scent? Want to work with her? She’s got appointments for both bespoke fragrances and our signature custom, guided fragrance creation package available. You’ll explore a whole new and delightful world through her nose.

perfumelover

10/07/2026

Last year we couldn't celebrate our 5th birthday with cake while a family we love was hungry. This year, we're sharing again. 💚

STRŌB turns 6 on Friday, October 16th. And just like last year, we're spending our birthday the way our late co-founder Kat taught us to: with love and abundance. Having enough is possible for everyone.

Mohammed, our Moh, the son of the Elfattah family who writes to Olivia from Gaza, is getting married on October 17th. In the middle of displacement, in the middle of a war that has taken nearly everything, he is choosing love. But Moh currently sleeps in the family car because there is no dry space in the tent. In 10 days he'll be a husband, and his wife will need a place to sleep. Not in a car.

So we're throwing a party. And we're asking you to come.

🎂 STRŌB's 6th Birthday Bake-Off
Friday, October 16th · 6:30–8pm

A night of baked goods, tasting, voting, and community. All proceeds go directly to the Elfattah family to help buy Moh and his family of 24 (mostly children) a tent. Plus 15% of everything the shop makes that evening goes to them too.

🧑‍🍳 Bakers: Bring one recipe of whatever your heart is proudest of. Arrive 5:45–6:15pm. No entry fee, just pre-register. Prizes: 1st place gets a $40 STRŌB gift card, 2nd place gets a goodie bag.

🫖 Tasters: $10 suggested donation, give what you can. Sample everything on the table and vote for your favorites. Winners announced at 7:45pm.

👶 Kids welcome. Art table set up for little ones.
🛍️ Shop is open all evening. 15% of sales go to the Elfattahs.

We're sharing joy and treats and community together, and the end result of our good time will be food and a home for a family who is just like us. That's who we are. That's how we celebrate.

Come celebrate with us. 🌿

📍 STRŌB Apothecary · 2111 Baldwin Ave, Suite 1, Crofton MD
🎟️ Register as a baker or RSVP as a taster on Eventbrite, link in bio



https://www.eventbrite.com/e/strob-turns-six-a-community-bake-off-for-the-elfattah-family-tickets-2002309803523

10/07/2026

Last year we couldn't celebrate our 5th with cake while a family we love was hungry. This year, we're sharing again.

Dear STRŌB Community,

STRŌB turns 6 on Friday, October 16, and we're spending our birthday the same way we spent our 5th: sharing it.

Here's why.

Last year, as we approached our 5th birthday, we had just begun communicating with a family in Gaza, the Elfattahs, who had become dear to us. Our birthday was coming up. And we found we couldn't quite bring ourselves to celebrate a milestone with cake and treats while a family we had come to love was hungry.

So we did what we do.

Our co-founders built STRŌB on five guiding principles, authored by our late co-founder Risikat Okedeyi, and two of them are love and abundance. The abundance one goes: we believe in abundance. Having enough is possible for everyone. So last year, we turned our 5th birthday into a chance to share. We gathered, we celebrated, and the proceeds went to the Elfattahs. It felt exactly right.

This year, we're doing it again. And the stakes are higher.

🫖 Moh is Getting Married 🫖

Mohammed, our Moh, the son of the Elfattah family who writes to Olivia from Gaza, is marrying his betrothed on October 17th, which just happens to be the day after our birthday. In the middle of displacement, in the middle of a war that has taken nearly everything, he is choosing love. He chooses joy.

But Moh currently sleeps in the family car outside the tent because there is no dry space for him inside. In 10 days, he will be a husband, and his new wife will need a place to sleep. Not in a car.

So we're throwing a party. And we're asking you to come.

🎂 The STRŌB 6th Birthday Bake-Off 🎂

Friday, October 16 · 6:30-8pm
Winners announced at 7:45

A night of baked goods, tasting, voting, and community. All proceeds go directly to the Elfattah family to help buy Moh and his wife and their family a tent. Plus 15% of everything the shop makes that evening goes to them too.

Come as a baker. Come as a taster. Come as both. Either way, please come.

🧑‍🍳 For Bakers 🧑‍🍳

Bring one recipe of whatever your heart is proudest of. A cake. A dozen cupcakes. 24 cookies. A loaf of bread. Something you love making, enough to be judged and tasted by the room.

Arrive between 5:45 and 6:15pm so we can assign your number, cut it, plate it, and set the table. No entry fee for bakers, just bring your dish and your name. Please pre-register.

Prizes in each category:

1st place: $40 STRŌB gift card
2nd place: STRŌB goodie bag
*You don't need to be present to win!

Register as a Baker → (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/strob-turns-six-a-community-bake-off-for-the-elfattah-family-tickets-2002309803523)

🫖 For Tasters 🫖

$10 suggested donation, give what you can. You can pre-register and donate through Eventbrite, or donate at the door. Either works.

You'll get a sampling of everything on the table and vote for your favorite in each category. Winners announced at 7:45. Every dollar you give becomes part of the tent.

RSVP as a Taster → (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/strob-turns-six-a-community-bake-off-for-the-elfattah-family-tickets-2002309803523)

👶 Kids Welcome 👶

We'll have an art table set up for kids (and any adult who wants to join them) to make take-home autumn cards. Bring the whole family.

🛒 Shop While You're Here 🛒

The shop is open all evening with STRŌB's favorite playlist from the last 6 years playing throughout. 15% of everything the shop takes in that night goes to the Elfattahs. If you've been meaning to grab something, Steeped in Hope, a candle, a crystal, a bag of seasonal tea, that something is also helping Moh and his wife begin their life together with a dry place to sleep, safe together with their family.

💚 Here's What We Believe 💚

We're sharing joy and treats and community together, and the end result of our good time will be food and a home for a family of people who are just like us.

That's who we are. That's how we celebrate. And we hope you'll celebrate with us.

With so much love,

Olivia, Sean & the STRŌB Family 🌿✨

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