overfastidiousness

He was, like all Russian officers of the old type, rather dandified and a little too immaculate and perfumed to please an American, but he was a Georgian and, like most of his race, so exceptionally handsome with his dark eyes and olive skin that you had to forgive him his overfastidiousness.

Six Red Months in Russia: An Observer's Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship 1918