Here's the footage of London welcoming in 2014.
London Fireworks 2014 - New Year's Eve Fireworks - BBC One - YouTube
For the time in the history of the world, revellers lining the Thames last night watching the fireworks coming from the London Eye on the opposite side of the Thames were able to TASTE the fireworks
As the fireworks exploded, edible peach snow and strawberry mist fired from "cannon" descended on partygoers watching the midnight pyrotechnics.
Around 50,000 people took part in what was dubbed the "world's first multi-sensory fireworks display", poking their tongues out to catch the flavours designed to match the colours on show.
Bubbles of orange-scented smoke, apple and cherry mist and even edible banana confetti were released into the air as the 11-minute firework salvo lit up the London Eye observation wheel.
The flavour descending on the revellers depended on the colour of the fireworks - the edible banana confetti was dropped onto them as yellow fireworks exploded, for example, and the strawberry flavours were emitted when red fireworks exploded.
"Amazing! It was phenomenal. It was really tasty with all those flavours coming in," one reveller, Samantha from Peterborough in eastern England, told Sky News television.
The past year in Britain saw the death of 1980s prime minister Margaret Thatcher but also the birth of a new royal heir in Prince George and the first Wimbledon men's singles tennis champion since 1936 in Andy Murray.
"There is no better way to celebrate the highs of 2013 and the start of an exciting New Year than by seeing one of the world's most dazzling firework displays, now augmented in more ways than one," said London Mayor Boris Johnson.
"A spectacular display of pyrotechnics that you can taste and even smell! Where else but London would you get such an experience?
"Watched by millions around the world, and hundreds of thousands of people from the banks of the Thames, it highlights our capital's fantastic community spirit and its premier position on the global stage."
Up to 100,000 people in key viewing areas by the River Thames got packs featuring scratch and sniff programmes, flashing LED wristbands and seven kinds of fruit-flavoured sweets that linked to the show.
The wind and rain intensified shortly before midnight but it did not put off the predicted 250,000-strong crowd which waited for hours along the riverbanks to take in the event.
Cheers drifted across the city as the Houses of Parliament's Big Ben bell chimed out the final seconds of 2013, before an estimated 12,000 fireworks sent 50,000 projectiles into the rainy night sky.
In comparison, one of London's rival cities, New York, had tens of thousands of people in Times Square wearing silly hats with NEW YEAR'S EVE 2014 printed on them (they can't even get the year right) watching just a few fireworks.
