Romantic: Girls

"Women in a Garden" by Claude Monet
My definition of a romantic name is something usually long, frilly, sometimes a little heavy and dusty or sometimes whispery and soft, a name I could imagine on a lady walking through a garden in Victorian clothes, or at a ball, dancing in pink, lilac, or blue. Maybe even on a girl with hair cropped to her chin, wandering outside barefooted, a notepad in her hand, drawing butterflies and getting caught in the rain. The smells I imagine are petrichor, linen, and roses. Sounds are water in a fountain, rustling of leaves, pencil on paper.
What do you consider a "romantic" name?
Do any of the ones I listed make you feel the same? Please let me know in the comment section below.

Cassandra
Theodosia
Gwendolen and Guinevere
Helena
Marguerite
Georgette
Francesca
Winifred
Euphemia
Thomasina
Louisa
Marisol
Fenella
Esmeray
Pernille
Violette
Josephine
Giosetta
Veronique
Lilias
Cecily and Cecile
Philomena and Philomène
Annunziata
Leontine
Hespera
Fidelma
Ophelia
Elspeth
Anastasia
Phoebe
Esme
Beatrix
Cloelia
Venetia
Hyacinth
Marceline
Isadora
Ophelia
Felicity
Eveline

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