Umami Butter is an indica from Maven Genetics, the California indoor grower built around phenotype hunting and hand-trimmed flower. It crosses Gelatti with Black Diamond X, one of Maven's own house cuts, and the finished buds carry violet and fuchsia tones under a heavy coat of resin.
The name points at the flavor Maven chased: savory and creamy up front, easing into sweeter, tangy notes. The plant has since become a parent in its own right, and Maven sells it as flower, smalls and solventless rosin, all from its own indoor rooms.
Gelatti brings the Cookies side
Gelatti comes from Cookies, the California breeder and brand. It pairs Gelato with Biscotti, keeping the family's dense, resinous bud structure while stacking two Cookies-era favorites in a single plant.
Gelatti has stayed hard to find outside California, so Maven's access to the cut gave Umami Butter a parent few breeders elsewhere were working with. It runs close to a balanced hybrid, and growers know the cut for dense, resinous buds that show traits from both of its Cookies-family parents.
Black Diamond X and the OG backbone
Black Diamond X is a Maven indica built from XXX OG and Black Diamond OG. That pairing gives it a heavy OG frame, and Maven lists it as an indica in its strain library.
In Umami Butter, it supplies the OG weight and indica structure that balances Gelatti's lighter hybrid lean.
Violet buds and a cold-cured rosin run
Maven describes Umami Butter as dense, sticky flower with violet and fuchsia tones woven between amber pistils. The trichome coverage is thick enough that the company also presses it into a 1g cold-cured live rosin, a creamy-colored solventless extract.
Flower sells in 3.5g jars and as smaller buds, and Maven grows every batch indoors. THC listings for the strain reach 37%. On Flower Co, the licensed California delivery service, Umami Butter carried a 5.0 rating across 42 reviews and the menu's top potency level, and the effect lands euphoric first, then settles into deep full-body relaxation that suits the end of the day.
From Umami Butter to French Butter
Maven did not treat Umami Butter as an endpoint. The company crossed it with FKAFL to make French Butter, another indica in its strain library. Like its parent, French Butter is listed as an indica. That move carries the Gelatti and Black Diamond X genetics into a fresh generation under the same roof.
The pattern is typical of how Maven works. The crew phenotypes heavily, keeps plants that stand out on structure, resin and terpene expression, and then feeds those keepers back into new crosses. Black Diamond X fed Umami Butter, and Umami Butter now feeds French Butter.
Maven says its team brings more than two decades of cultivation experience to that process. Beyond wholesale, the company runs a retail location and a Connoisseur Club membership. Its focus on consistency, potency and refined terpene expression is visible in Umami Butter: a Cookies dessert parent and an OG house cut, bred, grown and pressed by one California team.