Tastefully erotic books?

What novels are there that have an atmosphere, or just passages, of eroticism that is a bit subtle, refined, nuanced ? - probably without explicit detail, or at least not deliberately crude/vulgar. Not the kind of stuff that stokes the fevered imaginings of horny virgin youths. I think of H.E. Bates' beautifully written 'The Four Beauties' which breathes contained desire throughout, although sex only occurs in the last last story, and then only by inference - never actually described.