Can I avoid awaiting an async function if no return is expected or required

I think I understand async/await but I am confused by a part I have reached in my code in a very common scenario.

I have an async function createOrder() that processes orders. Before that function returns any values, it needs to execute another async function to send email confirmation sendEmail().

I don't want to wait for the email to be sent before returning the order details back to the customer.

So this is how I have gone about it:

async function createOrder(){

try {
  //Create the order object 
  const order = {
        productid: 1234
        name: "helpful text"
        price: "55.00"
  }

  sendEmail(order); // I dont want to await this

  return {
    order // Client needs this ASAP without waiting for email to be sent
  }
}
catch (e) {
  console.error(e);
}

}

The email function sends the mail:

async function sendEmail(payload){

try {
   await axios.post('/emailer/send', {
       payload
   });

}
catch(e){
  console.error(e);
}
}

My question is that my IDE gives me a warning that I have not used await when calling the sendEmail() function. Is it just a suggestion or is there something fundamentally wrong with my approach? If I am wrong, then what is a better way to go about it?

Usually the issue is that if sendEmail fails, you would want to handle that exception. But in this case, sendEmail has a try catch in itself, so you should be fine.

Unless there is more logic inside sendEmail which is not mentioned or say console.error is undefined, you are good.