Let us break the conscious, self-conscious love-ideal, and we shall grow strong, resistant teeth once more, and the teething of our young will not be the hell it is.
Teething is strictly the period when the voluntary center of the lower plane first comes into full activity, and takes for a time the precedence.
So, the mouth is the great sensual gate to the lower body.

But let us not forget it is also a gate by which we breathe, the gate through which we speak and go impalpably forth to our object, the gate at which we can kiss the pinched, delicate, spiritual kiss.

Therefore, although the main sensual gate of entrance to the lower body, it has its reference also to the upper body.
Taste, the sense of taste, is an intake of a pure communication between us and a body from the outside world.

It contains the element of touch, and in this it refers to the cardiac plexus.

But taste, _qua_ taste, refers purely to the solar plexus.
And then smell.