  We study the adsorption of simple fluids at smoothly structured, completely
wet, walls and show that a meniscus osculation transition occurs when the
Laplace and geometrical radii of curvature of locally parabolic regions
coincide. Macroscopically, the osculation transition is of fractional, $7/2$,
order and separates regimes in which the adsorption is microscopic, containing
only a thin wetting layer, and mesoscopic, in which a meniscus exists. We
develop a scaling theory for the rounding of the transition due to thin wetting
layers and derive critical exponent relations that determine how the
interfacial height scales with the geometrical radius of curvature. Connection
with the general geometric construction proposed by Rasc\'on and Parry is made.
Our predictions are supported by a microscopic model density functional theory
(DFT) for drying at a sinusoidally shaped hard-wall where we confirm the order
of the transition and also an exact sum-rule for the generalized contact
theorem due to Upton. We show that as bulk coexistence is approached the
adsorption isotherm separates into three regimes: a pre-osculation regime where
it is microscopic, containing only a thin wetting layer, a mesoscopic regime,
in which a meniscus sits within the troughs, and finally another microscopic
regime where the liquid-gas interface unbinds from the crests of the substrate.
