My experience of it decades ago was anything other than 'elegant', unless having one's face scrunch up like a bulldog pissing on a nettle before exploding into a sneezing fit can be considered 'elegant'.
It's totally 17th century elegant. Take a sniff, scrunch up your face, blow snot on the ground, load up your elephant gun and head to Africa for King and Country! All you need is a monocle.
I had that stuff too, around the same time* - and re-visited it on a trip to Sweden last year.. and, I'd still not consider it particularly 'elegant' :)
* we had a deal with our English teacher - my Swedish friend would supply him with little snus bundles, and we'd all get to sit in class using it ourselves. As a 17 year old, I thought it was the coolest thing, 'getting away with smoking in class with the teacher', even if i thought the actual process was utterly, utterly disgusting :)
What's your favorite? Big fan of Fribourg & Treyer brands here. Taking a sniff of something Lord Byron enjoyed hundreds of years ago can be a heady experience (I forget ... old paris or prince's)
I do feel like I should be wearing a powdered wig when I indulge in the stuff. Blowing my nose brings me down to earth; it's pretty gross!
My experience of it decades ago was anything other than 'elegant', unless having one's face scrunch up like a bulldog pissing on a nettle before exploding into a sneezing fit can be considered 'elegant'.