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Ada or Edith: if you'd have asked me just a week ago, my answer would definitely be Edith, and it might be again in a week. The name Ada has been growing on me recently.
Aina or Elsa: Aina feels insubstantial.
Alice or Alix or Alys: Alice is lovely and classic, while Alix sounds too modern, and Alys looks like a typo.
Cosima or Elvira or Ursula: it sounds the best out of these three to me, but I don't really like any of them.
Dagmar or Olga: I find Olga extremely ugly and rough sounding.
Eleonora or Isadora or Theodora: sounds beautiful and lively, and I love the Isadora Duncan association.
Elisabeth or Ester: Elisabeth is a wonderful, classic name, that offers a myriad of nicknames. I prefer Esther to Ester.
Helena or Ilona: Helena is one of my very favourite names, and Ilona is an "old lady name" where I live.
Jane or Mary: I love both, but Jane is wonderful, and slightly more unusual. It's very versatile - I can imagine it on a baby and an elderly woman, a blue-collar worker and an aristocrat.
Josephine or Persephone: I adore both, but Josephine is saucy and Victorian, and offers a wide range of nicknames.
Juliana or Lavinia or Minerva: beautiful and unusual. It reminds me of the Downton Abbey character. Juliana sounds too modern, and Minerva is too elderly.
Salome or Zénaïde: I don't like the sound of Zénaïde, and Salome is associated with the Oscar Wilde play.
Saskia or Sylvia: Saskia is unusual and youthful, and Sylvia seems more "middle aged house wife" to me, plus I can't shake of the association with poor Sylvia Likens.
Vanamo or Vellamo: I like the "ella" part.

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Alfons / Alphonse or Alfred: where I live, Alfons is a slang term for a brothel owner.
Andrei or Nikolai: sounds youthful and wide-eyed to me.
Casimir / Kasimir or Constantin / Konstantin: only slightly. I chose Casimir because of Kazimierz Pułaski, but if the other name was Constantine, it would have won.
Frederick or Henry: more unusual, and I love the nickname Freddie.
Gustaf / Gustav or Svante: or, better yet, Gustaw. I don't like the sound of it much, but it's better than Svante, and it's the name of a character in "Dziady", arguably one of the most important works in Polish culture.
Javier or Johannes: I love the sound and many famous bearers.
Kaspar or Oskar: all forms of Casper feel "friendly ghost" to me, and I love Oscar Wilde (even though I dislike his name).
Tapio or Untamo: Tapio reminds me of tapioca.