Another female rider here. My husband just laughs about how many saddles and bike short combinations that I've tried over the years. I've been riding with a Brooks Cambrium C17 (no cutouts) on 2 of my 3 bikes for the past two seasons. I wouldn't go as far as to say I love them but I also don't curse them like others that I've tried.
I think I have some random Terry saddle with a cutout on my Trek 700. That bike rarely gets used for more than about 20 miles at a time as it is the bike that I use for shuttling when I'm hiking the Ice Age Trail. I did do a 100 mile ride on it last summer as I ended up with a day free from hiking on a trip up in Wisconsin. I wasn't cursing the saddle but the relentless strong headwinds that day.