I thought both are acceptable and that the former sounds more natural.

Hi, misherux, pleased to meet you.

A refers to what's universally acknowledged while B what's you've experienced.

He blindfold, the soldiers took him to the camp, beating him with a cane and giving him electric shocks.

When smell goes to a noun, it primarily means the quality that something has which you notice by using your nose and the ability to notice it. It doesn't exist as a material object and is therefore an abstract noun.

It's the context that counts.

Hello, Filifour. Pleased to meet you here.

Unfairly imprisoned/arrested on some trumped-up charge.

Hi, Vincent, I thought it more preferable to take "spending one's holiday in Japan".