They also call it Samaritan oil, thieves oil for those above. It is a blend of essential oils from 5 plants: cinnamon, lemon, cloves, eucalyptus and rosemary. Created, apparently, by four French perfumers of the early fifteenth century who robbed the dead of the Black Death without getting infected. At the trial they declared their secret to get rid of the sentence. It seems that it does have antiseptic and disinfectant properties. I've always heard it said that cinnamon is antifungal.
